Linguistic Categorization : Proceedings of an International Symposium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 10-11, 1987.

Linguistic Categorization : Proceedings of an International Symposium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 10-11, 1987.

This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the 16th International Symposium at the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee. Two central question were addressed: What is the nature of the categories that underlie the structure of human language? What is the nature of extralinguistic catego...

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Other Authors: Corrigan, Roberta (Editor), Eckman, Fred R. (Editor), Noonan, Michael (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: John Benjamins Publishing Company 1989
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Categorization (Linguistics) > Congresses.
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Table of Contents:
  • LINGUISTIC CATEGORIZATION
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION LINGUISTIC AND NON-LINGUISTIC CATEGORIZATION: STRUCTURE AND PROCESS
  • 1. The importance of categorization
  • 2. Categorization as structure: The nature of cognitive and linguistic categories
  • 2.1 Prototype effects in cognition
  • 2.2 Prototype effects in language
  • 3. Processes operating in categorization
  • 3.1 Use of Production Systems
  • 3.2 Parallel Distributed Processing
  • 4. Language specific categorization
  • 5. Summary and conclusions
  • Note
  • References.
  • I. PROTOTYPE EFFECTS IN LANGUAGE
  • A LEXICAL MODEL OF COLOR SPACE
  • 1. The testing
  • 1.1 Four unlabelled categories
  • 1.2 Red-green-yellow-blue
  • 1.3 Red-purple-yellow-blue
  • 1.4 Red-orange-yellow-blue
  • 1.5 Three unlabelled categories
  • 1.6 Red-yellow-blue
  • 1.7 Red-green-blue (no yellow)
  • 1.8 Red-yellow-green (no blue)
  • 1.9 Green-Yellow-Blue (no Red)
  • 1.10 Orange-yellow-blue
  • 1.11 Red-orange-blue
  • 1.12 Red-yellow-orange
  • 1.13 Purple-yellow-blue
  • 1.14 Red-yellow-purple
  • 1.15 Red-purple-blue
  • 2. A new model
  • 3. Maximal perceptual distance
  • Note
  • References.
  • PRELIMINARIES TO A THEORY OF PHONOLOGICAL SUBSTANCE: THE SUBSTANCE OF SONORITY.
  • 1. General introduction
  • 1.1 Sonority, syllables and other notions
  • 1.2 History
  • 1.3 The difficulty in defining sonority
  • 1.4 Sonority as a prototype category
  • 2. Fundamental properties of sonority
  • 2.1 Vocalicity/Svara
  • 2.2 Voicing
  • 2.3 Loudness
  • 2.4 Prolongability
  • 2.5 Openness
  • 3. On the nature of margins
  • 'antisonority'
  • 3.1 The sonority 'slope'
  • 3.2 Consonantality
  • 3.3 Closure
  • 3.4 Silence and hiss
  • 4. Sonority and prototypicality
  • 5. Individual language analyses.
  • 5.1 The nature of Greek and Latin onsets
  • 5.2 Vowel systems
  • 6. Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • CATEGORIZING PHONOLOGICAL SEGMENTS: THE INADEQUACY OF THE SONORITY HIERARCHY
  • Notes
  • References
  • EXPERIMENTALEVIDENCE FOR SYLLABLE-INTERNAL STRUCTURE
  • Notes
  • References
  • PHONOLOGICAL CATEGORIES AND CONSTITUENTS
  • References
  • ARE THEMATIC RELATIONS DISCRETE?
  • 1. Derived nominals
  • 1.1 English two-argument nominals
  • 1.2 Single argument transitive nominals
  • 1.3 Polish derived nominals
  • 2. Polish reflexive verbs
  • 3. Polish impersonal constructions.
  • 4. Binding of anaphors in experiential constructions
  • 5. Feature based thematic system
  • 5.1 The choice of features
  • 5.2 Action vs. emotion
  • Notes
  • References
  • CATEGORY RESTRICTIONS IN MARKEDNESS RELATIONS
  • Introduction
  • 1. Markedness principles and categorial uniformity
  • 1.1 Markedness-distribution principle
  • 1.2 Hypothesis of differential communicative value
  • 1.3 Markedness constraint
  • 1.4 Markedness and language acquisition
  • 2. Categorial minimality
  • 3. Formal and functional minimality
  • Notes
  • References.

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