What Do Category-Specific Semantic Deficits Tell Us about the Representation of Lexical Concepts?  

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Almeida, Roberto G. de

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 68 no. 1-2 (1999), page 241-248.
Topik: category-specific semantic deficits; lexical concepts; atomism; meaning-postulates; semantic features
Fulltext: 68_01-02_Almeida.pdf (38.06KB)

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A reassessment of category-specific semantic deficits in light of their contribution to a theory of the representation of lexical concepts is proposed. Two theories are examined: one, held by the majority of researchers in the field, claims that concepts are represented by sets of features; another, in contrast, claims that concepts are atomic representations. An analysis of category-specific semantic deficits in terms of inferential relations (of the meaning-postulates type) between atomic concepts is elaborated. It is argued that this theory can better account for the pattern of performance exhibited by patients with semantic deficits.

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