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A crosslinguistic perspective on semantic cognition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2008

Asifa Majid  and
Falk Huettig
Asifa Majid
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen 6500AH, The Netherlands. [email protected]://www.mpi.nl/Members/[email protected]://www.mpi.nl/Members/FalkHuettig
Falk Huettig
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen 6500AH, The Netherlands. [email protected]://www.mpi.nl/Members/[email protected]://www.mpi.nl/Members/FalkHuettig
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Abstract

Coherent covariation appears to be a powerful explanatory factor accounting for a range of phenomena in semantic cognition. But its role in accounting for the crosslinguistic facts is less clear. Variation in naming, within the same semantic domain, raises vexing questions about the necessary parameters needed to account for the basic facts underlying categorization.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 6 , December 2008 , pp. 720 - 721
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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