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Kinship terminology: polysemy or categorization?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2010

Lotte Hogeweg ,
Géraldine Legendre  and
Paul Smolensky
Lotte Hogeweg
Affiliation:
Cognitive Science Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218. hogeweg@cogsci.jhu.edu legendre@jhu.edu http://web.jhu.edu/cogsci/people/faculty/Legendre/ smolensky@jhu.edu http://web.jhu.edu/cogsci/people/faculty/Smolensky/
Géraldine Legendre
Affiliation:
Cognitive Science Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218. hogeweg@cogsci.jhu.edu legendre@jhu.edu http://web.jhu.edu/cogsci/people/faculty/Legendre/ smolensky@jhu.edu http://web.jhu.edu/cogsci/people/faculty/Smolensky/
Paul Smolensky
Affiliation:
Cognitive Science Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218. hogeweg@cogsci.jhu.edu legendre@jhu.edu http://web.jhu.edu/cogsci/people/faculty/Legendre/ smolensky@jhu.edu http://web.jhu.edu/cogsci/people/faculty/Smolensky/
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Abstract

The target article offers an analysis of the categorization of kin types and empirical evidence that cross-cultural universals may be amenable to OT explanation. Since the analysis concerns the structuring of conceptual categories rather than the use of words, it differs from previous OT analyses in lexical semantics in what is considered to be the input and output of optimization.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 5 , October 2010 , pp. 386 - 387
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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