Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: Linguistic and non-linguistic categorization: Structure and process 1
5. I. Prototype effects in language
6. A lexical model of color space 31
7. Preliminaries to a theory of phonological substance 55
8. Categorizing phonological segments 69
9. Experimental evidence for syllable-internal structure 81
10. Phonological categories and constituents 93
11. Are thematic relations discrete? 115
12. Category restrictions in markedness relations 131
13. The acquisition of the past participle 149
14. II. Categorization processes
15. Category learning in a connectionist model 163
16. Competition and lexical categorization 195
17. III. Cross-linguistic categorization
18. A discourse approach to the cross-linguistic category ‘Adjective’ 245
19. Pronominality 267
20. On Humboldt on the Dual 293
21. Index of names 335
22. Language Index 343
23. Subject Index 347