Conceptual and Linguistic Representations of Kinds and Classes

Cognitive Science

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1224-1250

  Prasada, Sandeep ^a   Hennefield, Laura ^a   Otap, Daniel ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Class representations; Conceptual combination; Conceptual representation; Hierarchical relations; Kind representations; Language conceptual system interface

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL METHOD; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84865839869     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2012.01254.x     Document Type: Article

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