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Generalizing Prototype Theory: A Formal Quantum Framework [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Theories of natural language and concepts have been unable to model the flexibility, creativity, context-dependence, and emergence, exhibited by words, concepts and their combinations.
Diederik eAerts +3 more
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Prototype theory and the importance of literary form for moral imagination [PDF]
Frontiers in Human NeurosciencePrototype theory, which argues that categories have graded (and thus fuzzy) membership based on prototypes, has been used as cognitive evidence to support moral particularism because if categories (in moral rules) only have fuzzy conceptual boundaries ...
Yi Zheng
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Prospects and problems of prototype theory [PDF]
Diacronia, 2016 Parallel to the research that I did on the application of prototype theory to questions of semantic change (which eventually resulted in my Diachronic Prototype Semantics monograph of 1997), I paid attention on a number of occasions to the theoretical ...
Dirk Geeraerts
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Semantic structures of the verbs play and igrati from the prototype theory perspective and their presentation in dictionaries [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2021 In this paper, an analysis of the semantic structures of the English verb play and the Serbian verb igrati has been carried out according to the principles of the prototype theory as well as an analysis of the lexicographic representation of these ...
Halas-Popović Ana V.
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Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2023 This study attempts to account for Japanese language learners’ selection pattern of case particle wo by taking a prototype-based approach to language learning.
Anubhuti Chauhan, Ayat Hosseini
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Comparative Legilinguistics, 2020 Prototype theory is a semantic theory according to which the membership of conceptual categories is based not on a list of criterial features, but rather on the similarity to the most representative member of the category.
Zeifert Mateusz
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Hierarchical Concept Learning by Fuzzy Semantic Cells
Applied Sciences, 2021 Concept modeling and learning have been important research topics in artificial intelligence and knowledge discovery. This paper studies a hierarchical concept learning method that requires a small amount of data to achieve competitive performances.
Linna Zhu, Wei Li, Yongchuan Tang
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A Few Remarks on Prototype Theory in Cognitive Linguistics [PDF]
Language, Culture, Politics, 2021 The purpose of the present paper is to demonstrate both the historical background of the prototype theory and its denitional problems. It presents two fundamental tenets of cognitive linguistics and the origin of prototype theory.
Alicja Cuper, Małgorzata Cuper-Ferrigno
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Informal Logic, 2014 This contribution aims at providing an argumentative method to account for epistemic modality and evidentiality. I claim that these two linguistic categories can work as semantic components of defeasible argumentative schemes based on classification ...
Elena Musi
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Lexikos, 2016 The aim of this paper is to point to fundamental implications of the prototype theory for lexicographic practice using them as a solid foundation for developing and proposing a model for systematic, consistent, precise and, above all, reliable treatment ...
Ana Halas
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