Partial Knowledge of Word Meanings: Thematic & Taxonomic Representations

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeannette M. Whitmore ◽  
Wendelyn J. Shore ◽  
Peg Hull Smith ◽  
Elizabeth A. Geiger ◽  
Kelly J. Sisk
Keyword(s):  
Partial Knowledge ◽  
Word Meanings

Partial knowledge of word meanings.

1991 ◽  
Vol 120 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis T. Durso ◽  
Wendelyn J. Shore
Keyword(s):  
Partial Knowledge ◽  
Word Meanings

What do we know when we claim to know nothing? Partial knowledge of word meanings may be ontological, but not hierarchical

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeannette M. Stein ◽  
Wendelyn J. Shore
Keyword(s):  
Word Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Category Membership ◽  
Hierarchical Organization ◽  
Partial Knowledge ◽  
Ontological Category ◽  
Word Meanings ◽  
Word Level ◽  
Ontological Categories ◽  
Low Levels

AbstractTwo studies investigated whether knowledge about ontological category membership exists early in the word learning process—specifically, when words are partially known—and if so, how such knowledge is represented. Participants made decisions about the ontological category membership of words at three levels of knowledge: words they correctly defined (known), words recognized as familiar (frontier), and words mistakenly identified as nonwords (unknown). Accuracy on this task improved as a function of word level. Participants were able to identify the broad ontological categories to which words at all three levels of knowledge belonged, as well as the more specific ontological categories to which the words belonged. Overall, results indicated that knowledge about ontological category membership is available for words at very low levels of knowledge, and that this knowledge does not necessarily follow the strict hierarchical organization some ontological systems are thought to embody (e.g. Keil 1979). Implications for the acquisition and representation of word meanings are discussed.

The ontological nature of partial knowledge of word meanings

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeannette M. Whitmore ◽  
Wendelyn J. Shore
Keyword(s):  
Partial Knowledge ◽  
Word Meanings

Partial Knowledge of Word Meanings: Thematic and Taxonomic Representations

2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeannette M. Whitmore ◽  
Wendelyn J. Shore ◽  
Peg Hull Smith
Keyword(s):  
Partial Knowledge ◽  
Word Meanings

Incremental learning of word meanings: ERP evidence for stages of meaning acquisition

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwen A. Frishkoff ◽  
Kevyn Collins-Thompson ◽  
Charles A. Perfetti
Keyword(s):  
Incremental Learning ◽  
Word Meanings

Suppression of irrelevant ambiguous word meanings in the cerebral hemispheres

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Chiarello ◽  
Kim Cannon ◽  
Lorie Richards ◽  
Lisa Maxfield
Keyword(s):  
Ambiguous Word ◽  
Cerebral Hemispheres ◽  
Word Meanings
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