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Judging a "Book" by Its Cover and Its Contents: The Representation of Polysemous and Homophonous Meanings in Four-Year-Old Children
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Srinivasan, Mahesh; Snedeker, Jesse – Cognitive Psychology, 2011
Unlike "homophonous" meanings, which are semantically unrelated (e.g., the use of "bat" to refer to a baseball bat and a flying rodent), "polysemous" meanings are systematically related to one another (e.g., the use of "book", "CD", and "video" to refer to physical objects, as in "the leather book", or to the intellectual content they contain, as…
Descriptors: Semantics, Young Children, Phonetics, Lexicology