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Evidence for a shared instrument prototype from English, Dutch, and German

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At conceptual and linguistic levels of cognition, events are said to be represented in terms of abstract categories, for example, the sentence Jackie cut the bagel with a knife encodes the categories Agent (i.e., Jackie) and Patient (i.e., the bagel). In this paper, we ask whether entities such as the knife are also represented in terms of such a category (often labeled "Instrument") and, if so, whether this category has a prototype structure. We hypothesized the Proto-instrument is a tool: a...

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Peer reviewed

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10.1111/cogs.13140

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Experimental Psychology
Oxford college:
St Hugh's College
Role:
Author
Publisher:
Wiley
Journal:
Cognitive Science More from this journal
Volume:
46
Issue:
5
Article number:
e13140
Publication date:
2022-05-06
Acceptance date:
2022-03-31
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EISSN:
1551-6709
ISSN:
0364-0213
Pmid:
35523145
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1259547
Local pid:
pubs:1259547
Deposit date:
2022-11-08

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