verbal label

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Verbal labels were defined as any count noun that was used uniquely to identify the object depicted.
For example, verbal labels may remain constant in the input while gestures fall to the wayside after facilitating infants' initial entry into symbolic communication.
Another way to think about this is that semantic representations or word meanings are the mappings of verbal labels to their concepts.
Half of the subjects learned to group pairs of patterns together to form larger chunks that had verbal labels.
In typically developing children, the ability to use pointing to refer to objects tends to emerge before the use of verbal labels for the same purpose.
Cycowicz et al. provide normative data on a large number of object pictures and their verbal labels.
This trend for parents to employ verbal labels at a consistent rate across the second year but to decline in the use of gestural labels appeared quite informative and interpretable.
Knitwear designers have a vocabulary for garment features, but the range of available verbal labels for garment categories is much smaller than the range of possible categories.
They do this by always having the message headers in a certain order, allowing operators to read and understand the headers without explicit verbal labels.
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