ABSTRACT
I have discussed what some of the first concepts are, such as animal, furniture, vehicle, and plant, but have not yet considered what the content of these global concepts might be. I do so briefly in this section, but note that it is much easier to determine that infants have some concept of animal than to determine exactly what this consists of. We have the most data about the concept of animal, although the corpus is not systematic, having been collected for a variety of purposes. Nevertheless, I believe we can glean a general picture of what the earliest concept of animal might be like, and thus what the meaning is that controls the building-up of associations.
