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The paper reports the outcome of a typicality judgement study used to create “prototype definitions” for the monolingual learner’s dictionary (MLD). The study investigated whether a CL approach to word meaning, which relies on Prototype Semantics in the Roschian tradition (Rosch, 1975; Rosch & Mervis, 1975), might be employed to create innovative “prototype definitions” for the monolingual dictionary. Prototype Semantics pre dicts that different definition stimulifo...The paper reports the outcome of a typicality judgement study used to create “prototype definitions” for the monolingual learner’s dictionary (MLD). The study investigated whether a CL approach to word meaning, which relies on Prototype Semantics in the Roschian tradition (Rosch, 1975; Rosch & Mervis, 1975), might be employed to create innovative “prototype definitions” for the monolingual dictionary. Prototype Semantics pre dicts that different definition stimulifor the same headword, like other instantiations of lexical concepts, ought to exhibit effects of graded typicality (or “goodness of exemplar” effects) with reference to the headword. To investigate the assumption, a typicality judgement study was conducted using Likert type scales to rate definition stimuli on their typicality towards a dictionary headword (N = 34)» weiterlesen» einklappen

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