The other way to learn the meaning of a word.
Bloom's book can be viewed as a long argument for an anti-Whorfian conclusion. According to Bloom, word learning is usually a process of mapping new words to pre-existing concepts. But an exception to this generalization - the learning of words from linguistic context - poses a problem for Bloom's anti-Whorfian argument.
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Cognitive Science Department, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada sscott@ccs.carleton.ca http://www.chat.carleton.ca/~sscott2/sam.