Selected features of word meaning
Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal BehaviorPublished 1 December 1976
Robert G. Kunzendorf
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Abstract
Under certain experimental conditions, the fact that a given word (e.g., lilac) belongs to a relatively large category (plants) was affirmed more quickly than the fact that it belongs to a relatively small category (flowers). This result, in conjunction with other results obtained in the current experiment, tends to contradict the predictions of previous theories of word meaning and lends support to a feature selection theory derived fromGarner's (The processing of information and structure, Potomac, Md.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1974) critical realism position.
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