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What some concepts might not be
Abstract
A discussion of the difficulties of prototype theories for describing compositional meaning motivates three experiments that inquire how well-defined concepts fare under paradigms that are commonly interpreted to support the prototype view. The stimulus materials include exemplars of prototype categories (sport, vehicle, fruit, vegetable) previously studied by others, and also exemplars of supposedly well-defined categories (odd number, even number, female and plane geometry figure)
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- Authors
- Armstrong, S. L., Gleitman, L. R., & Gleitman, H.
- Venue
- Cognition
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1983-05
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 263-308
- ISSN
- 0010-0277 (ISSN-L)
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- W2121456165
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- 1,054
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 30.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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