The book is concerned with the child's acquisition of names (by which is meant words that refer to objects - including proper names, common nouns in some uses,
Most research on children's lexical development has focused on their acquisition of names for concrete objects. This is the first edited volume to focus specifi
The Names of Things is a book about a man and a generation. Born to a working-class family in Toronto, David Helwig grew up in the haunted town of Niagara-on-th