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

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Linguistic Categorization

Proceedings of an International Symposium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 10–11, 1987

Edited by: Roberta Corrigan , Fred Eckman and Michael Noonan

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1989

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Volume 61 | Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

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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 categories that are reflected in language? These questions are addressed from the perspective of a variety of disciplines, using many different methodologies and focusing on many different aspects of language including morphology, syntax, semantics, phonology and discourse. The volume is divided into 3 sections: prototype effects in language, categorization processes, and cross-linguistic categorization.

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Linguistics and Semiotics Applied Linguistics Forensic Linguistics

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Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Linguistic and non-linguistic categorization: Structure and process Roberta Corrigan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
I. Prototype effects in language
A lexical model of color space John Archibald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
Preliminaries to a theory of phonological substance The substance of sonority Geoffrey S. Nathan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
Categorizing phonological segments The inadequacy of the sonority hierarchy Derry L. Malsch and R. Fulcher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	69
Experimental evidence for syllable-internal structure M. Dow and Bruce L. Derwing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	81
Phonological categories and constituents Gregory Iverson and D. Wheeler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	93
Are thematic relations discrete? Bożena Rozwadowska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	115
Category restrictions in markedness relations Jeanette K. Gundel, Kathleen Houlihan and Gerald A. Sanders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	131
The acquisition of the past participle Discourse-based vs form-based categories Carol Lynn Moder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	149
II. Categorization processes
Category learning in a connectionist model Learning to decline the German definite article R. Taraban, J. McDonald and Brian MacWhinney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	163
Competition and lexical categorization Brian MacWhinney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	195
III. Cross-linguistic categorization
A discourse approach to the cross-linguistic category ‘Adjective’ S. Thompson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	245
Pronominality A noun-pronoun continuum Nobuko Sugamoto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	267
On Humboldt on the Dual Frans Plank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	293
Index of names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	335
Language Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	343
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	347

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Theoretical linguistics

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