认知语言学Prototypes and Categories.pptxVIP

Prototypes and Categories; early empirical research into lexical categories;Focal colours;Rosch’s findings: Focal colours are perceptually more salient than non-focal colours. ? Focal colours are more accurately remembered in short-term memory and more easily retained in long-term memory. ? The names of focal colours are more rapidly produced in colour-naming tasks and are acquired earlier by children.; These results encouraged Rosch to extend the notion of foci or prototypes, as she now called them – beyond colour categories e.g. into the domains of shapes, organisms and objects.;Good exam