Galit W. Sassoon
List of John Benjamins publications in which Galit W. Sassoon is involved.
Articles
2018 Discrete dimension accessibility in multidimensional concepts: The noun-adjective distinction The Mental Lexicon 13:1, pp. 105–142 | Article
Previous studies have identified that conceptual categories corresponding to nouns exhibit semantic domain effects: (1) classification into biological ones reflects a non-additive consideration of their defining dimensions whereas classification into artefactual and, presumably, social nouns is… read more
2011 Adjectival vs. nominal categorization processes: The Rule vs. Similarity hypothesis Cognitive and Empirical Pragmatics: Issues and perspectives, Bochner, Gregory, Philippe De Brabanter, Mikhail Kissine and Daniela Rossi (eds.), pp. 104–147 | Article
Classification of entities into categories can be determined based on a rule – a single criterion or relatively few criteria combined with logical operations like ‘and’ or ‘or’. Alternatively, classification can be based on similarity to prototypical examples, i.e. an overall degree of match to… read more