Book description
This volume contains perspectives from a collection of cognitive scientists on the psychological, philosophical, and educational issues surrounding the meanings of words and how these meanings are learned and accessed. It features chapters covering the nature and structure of word meaning, how new word meanings are acquired in childhood and later on in life, and how research in word processing may tell us something about the way in which word meanings are represented and how they relate to the language processor.Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- An Introduction to the Psychology of Word Meaning
- 1. Meaning and Concepts
- 2. Word Meaning and Word Use
- 3. Cross-Cultural Aspects of Word Meanings
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4. The Combination of Prototype Concepts
- Prototype Theory—A Formalization
- Prototype Theory—The Evidence
- Combining Concepts
- Experimental Evidence
- Noun-Noun Compounds
- Relative Clause Conjunctions
- Disjunction
- Negation
- An Inheritance Model for Composite Prototypes
- The Composite Prototype Model
- Evidence for the Model
- Overextension and Dominance
- Noncompositional Effects
- Final Remarks—Testing Concepts to Destruction
- Conclusion
- References
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5. Predicating and Nonpredicating Combinations
- Predicating Adjectives
- The Modification Model
- Complications for the Modification Model
- Combinations and Their “Simple” Counterparts
- Nonpredicating Adjectives
- Relations Among Components
- The Complexity Hypothesis
- The Typicality Hypothesis
- Processing Nonpredicating Combinations
- The Relation Between Predicating and Nonpredicating Combinations
- References
- 6. Learning Word Meanings from Definitions: Problems and Potential
- 7. Beyond the Instrumentalist Hypothesis: Some Relationships Between Word Meanings and Comprehension
- 8. On the Early Influence of Meaning in Word Recognition: A Review of the Literature
- 9. Why are Abstract Concepts Hard to Understand?
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10. Interpretation of Word Meanings by the Cerebral Hemispheres: One is Not Enough
- Introduction
- Cerebral Asymmetry for Language
- Word Recognition in the Intact Hemispheres
- Semantic Priming in Left and Right Hemispheres
- Hemispheric Processing of Word Meanings: A Synthesis
- Semantic Interpretation in RH-Lesioned Patients
- Semantic Processing Without the Right Hemisphere: A Conjecture
- Conclusion
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Product information
- Title: The Psychology of Word Meanings
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2013
- Publisher(s): Psychology Press
- ISBN: 9781134755653
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