The abstraction of form in semantic categories

The abstraction of form in semantic categories

Undergraduates were asked to generate a name for a hypothetical new exemplar of a category. They produced names that had the same numbers of syllables, the same endings, and the same types of word stems as existing exemplars of that category. In addition, novel exemplars, each consisting of a nonsen...

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Veröffentlicht in:Memory & cognition 1991, Vol.19 (1), p.1-7
Hauptverfasser: RUBIN, D. C, STOLTZFUS, E. R, WALL, K. L
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Adult
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition & reasoning
Communication disorders
Concept Formation
Form Perception
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Language
Memory
Mental Recall
Miscellaneous
Phonetics
Psycholinguistics
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Semantics
Social research
Verbal Learning
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Zusammenfassung:Undergraduates were asked to generate a name for a hypothetical new exemplar of a category. They produced names that had the same numbers of syllables, the same endings, and the same types of word stems as existing exemplars of that category. In addition, novel exemplars, each consisting of a nonsense syllable root and a prototypical ending, were accurately assigned to categories. The data demonstrate the abstraction and use of surface properties of words.
ISSN:0090-502X
1532-5946
DOI:10.3758/bf03198491