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The modifier effect in within-category induction: Default inheritance in complex noun phrases.

Författare

Summary, in English

Within-category induction is the projection of a generic property from a class (Apples are sweet) to a subtype of that class (Chinese apples are sweet). The modifier effect refers to the discovery reported by Connolly et al., that the subtype statement tends to be judged less likely to be true than the original unmodified sentence. The effect was replicated and shown to be moderated by the typicality of the modifier (Experiment 1). Likelihood judgements were also found to correlate between modified and unmodified versions of sentences. Experiment 2 elicited justifications, which suggested three types of reason for the effect-pragmatics, knowledge-based reasoning, and uncertainty about attribute inheritance. It is argued that the results provide clear evidence for the default inheritance of prototypical attributes in modified concepts, although a full account of the effect remains to be given.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2012

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

90-116

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volym

27

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Routledge

Ämne

  • Philosophy

Nyckelord

  • Concepts
  • Prototypes
  • Compositionality
  • Conceptual combination

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0169-0965