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Lexical misunderstandings and prototype theory

AI & Society, 1998
This paper uses examples of conversational understandings, misunderstandings and non-understandings to explore the role of prototypes and schemata in conversational understanding. An investigation of the procedures by which we make sense of lexical items in utterances by fitting prototypes into schemata is followed by an examination of how schemata are
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On the adequacy of prototype theory as a theory of concepts

Cognition, 1981
Abstract Prototype theory construes membership in a concept's extension as graded, determined by similarity to the concept's “best” exemplar (or by some other measure of central tendency). The present paper is concerned with the compatibility of this view of concept membership with two criteria of adequacy for theories of concepts.
D N, Osherson, E E, Smith
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Relating Prototype Theory and Label Semantics

2009
An interpretation of the label semantics framework is introduced based on prototype theory. Within this interpretation it is shown that the appropriateness of an expression is characterised by an interval constraints on a parameter e. Here e is an uncertain distance threshold according to which an element x is sufficiently close to the prototype p i of
Jonathan Lawry, Yongchuan Tang
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Cognitive Semantics and Prototype Theory

1997
Abstract With the birth of cognitive semantics, new ideas from the field of theoretical semantics have found their way to the study of meaning changes, and that should not come as a surprise: one of the major things cognitive semantics is interested in is polysemy-and polysemy is, roughly, the synchronic reflection of diachronicsemantic ...
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Testing the Prototype Theory of Concepts

Journal of Memory and Language, 1995
Abstract Four experiments were designed to test two predictions of Prototype Theory. The first prediction was that when the defining (necessary) features of a concept are only partially matched by an instance, then characteristic (nonnecessary) features of concepts can affect categorization.
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Prototype Theory and Genre Analysis

2016
This chapter reviews crucial concepts for this book, namely ‘family resemblance’ and ‘prototype’. This review chapter is organised with a view to provide a new generic structure analytical model that integrates approaches across disciplines, including cognitive sciences, psychology, and cognitive linguistics.
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Can prototypes inform moral developmental theory?

Developmental Psychology, 1998
L. J. Walker and R. C. Pitts (1998) suggest that research on prototypes of moral excellence can lead to important new insights for accounts of moral development that are unlikely to emerge from the efforts of theorists working within psychological or philosophical paradigms.
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Prototype Theory as a Scientific Paradigm

1997
Abstract IN an attempt to highlight the importance of background assumptions in scientific research, Thomas Kuhn (1962) introduced the notion of ‘paradigm’ into the philosophy of science: a paradigm is a set of assumptions, representational mechanisms, values, symbolic formats, and typical problems with exemplary solutions that together ...
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VaKE: Theory, Prototype, and Variations

2022
Jean-Luc Patry, Sieglinde Weyringer
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Deconstruction, Prototype Theory and Semiotics

The American Journal of Semiotics, 1992
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