Prototype theory:
– before categorizing → comparing it to an known object of the same sort
– how is this knowledge organized?
– Necessary criteria are features that we need for qualification
- what must be given?
Prototype theory & culture:
– How important is the cultural background for concept formation?
– Is the perception and processing of reality primarily a matter of the language one speaks?
Concepts are culturally determined.
Mental lexicon:
– human word store
– part of a long term memory
– teacher's job: getting vocabulary from short into long term memory
Words & structures:
– syntagmatic structure: Axis of combination
– paradigmatic structure: Axis of selection
– before categorizing → comparing it to an known object of the same sort
– how is this knowledge organized?
– Necessary criteria are features that we need for qualification
- what must be given?
Prototype theory & culture:
– How important is the cultural background for concept formation?
– Is the perception and processing of reality primarily a matter of the language one speaks?
Concepts are culturally determined.
Mental lexicon:
– human word store
– part of a long term memory
– teacher's job: getting vocabulary from short into long term memory
Words & structures:
– syntagmatic structure: Axis of combination
– paradigmatic structure: Axis of selection
