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(2008) Human haptic perception, Dordrecht, Springer.
Haptic perception in infancy and first acquisition of object words
developmental and clinical approach
Christiane Kiese-Himmel
pp. 321-334
To recognise the properties of physical objects and build a mental representation of them is a prerequisite for the acquisition of words referring to objects, words that hold a key role in early lexical development. Object words account for about 60% of nominals. Words that name solid objects encode the first set of meaning, they can be understood by a healthy infant beginning between the 10th and 12th month and, soon after, be reproduced in child-specific language [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. At first object words are generalised to new instances on the basis of perceivable similarities.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7643-7612-3_27
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Kiese-Himmel, C. (2008)., Haptic perception in infancy and first acquisition of object words: developmental and clinical approach, in M. Grunwald (ed.), Human haptic perception, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 321-334.
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