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The scientific study of human language.
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proto-scene
Language; Linguistics
In the principled polysemy model of lexical representation the central sense for a preposition such as over is directly grounded in a specific kind of recurring spatial scene. This spatial scene, ...
prototype
Language; Linguistics
A relatively abstract mental representation that assembles the key attributes or features that best represent instances of a given category. Accordingly, the prototype is viewed as a schematic ...
prototype structure
Language; Linguistics
Relates to the occurrence of repeated attributes across distinct members, or exemplars, of a particular category which gives rise to a prototype. Prototype structure thus concerns the degree to which ...
Prototype Theory
Language; Linguistics
A theory of human categorization that was posited by Eleanor Rosch in order to account for experimental findings that she and her colleagues uncovered during the 1970s. Prototype theory holds that ...
protracted duration
Language; Linguistics
The phenomenologically real experience in which time ‘feels’ as if it is proceeding ‘more slowly’ than usual. This experience is attested in situations when more of the perceptual stimulus array is ...
purport
Language; Linguistics
A term coined by Alan Cruse . Relates to the encyclopedic knowledge associated with a given word. Includes the past uses to which a word has been put. In this regard purport is similar to the notion ...
radial category
Language; Linguistics
A category whose members are organized with respect to a composite prototype. The members of the radial category are not generated. Rather, they are extended by convention and therefore must be ...
