Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!philabs.philips.COM!rlw From: rlw@philabs.philips.COM (Richard Wexelblat) Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest Subject: Re: Natural Kinds Message-ID: <1416@briar.Philips.Com> Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 13:05:53 EDT Article-I.D.: briar.1416 Posted: Tue Jul 21 13:05:53 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jul-87 00:53:25 EDT References: <8707200505.AA05770@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: rlw@philabs.philips.com (Richard Wexelblat) Distribution: world Organization: Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff Manor, NY Lines: 12 Approved: ailist@stripe.sri.com It is amusing and instructive to study and speculate on children's language and conceptualization. (Wow! That construct's almost Swiftean!) For those who would read further in this domain, I recommend: Brown, Roger A First Language -- The Early Stages Harvard Univ. Press, 1973 MacNamara, John Names for Things -- A Study of Human Learning MIT Press, 1984