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The Role of Contrast Categories in Natural Language Concepts

✍ Scribed by Timothy Verbeemen; Veerle Vanoverberghe; Gert Storms; Wim Ruts

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Weight: 139 KB
Volume: 44
Category: Article
ISSN: 0749-596X
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.2000.2748

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✦ Synopsis

In this paper, seven experiments are described in which the effect of contrast categories on the within-category structure of superordinate and basic level natural language concepts was studied. Intension-based and extensionbased predictors originating from both the target category and a contrast category were used to predict typicality ratings and response times in two different speeded categorization tasks. Virtually no evidence for contrast category effects was found in any of the experiments. These findings contrast with what one would expect based on results reported by Rosch and Mervis (1975) and on many exemplar models, in which a contrast category effect is explicitly assumed.

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