A psychological method to investigate verbal concepts

摘要: Abstract The method of sorting is used to study how lexical information might be organized and stored in memory. Judges sort a set items into clusters, data from several judges are pooled. number putting pair the same cluster taken as measure proximity those two items. Constraints on resulting that attributable itself consequences following different structural hypotheses considered. Data for 48 common nouns test assumption when clustered it reflects decision ignore particular conceptual features would normally distinguish items, an argument made by most derive presuppositions assertions contained definitions nouns.