{"pk":26392,"title":"Between versus Within-Language Differences in Linguistic Categorization","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Cross-linguistic research has shown that boundaries for\nlexical categories differ from language to language. The aim\nof this study is to explore these differences between languages\nin relation to the categorization differences within a language.\nMonolingual Dutch- (N=400) and French-speaking (N=300)\nBelgian adults provided lexical category judgments for three\nlexical categories that are roughly equivalent in Dutch and\nFrench. Each category was represented by good, borderline,\nand bad examples. A mixture modeling approach enabled us\nto identify latent groups of categorizers within a language and\nto evaluate cross-linguistic variation in relation to within-\nlanguage variation. We found complex patterns of lexical\nvariation within as well as between language groups. Even\nwithin a seemingly homogeneous group of speakers sharing\nthe same mother tongue, latent groups of categorizers display\na variability that resembles patterns of lexical variation found\nat a cross-linguistic level of comparison.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"artifact categories; cross-linguistic differences;\nsemantic variation; vagueness"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9sp2848s","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Anne","middle_name":"","last_name":"White","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Leuven","department":""},{"first_name":"Gert","middle_name":"","last_name":"Storms","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Leuven","department":""},{"first_name":"Barbara","middle_name":"C.","last_name":"Malt","name_suffix":"","institution":"Lehigh University","department":""},{"first_name":"Steven","middle_name":"","last_name":"Verheyen","name_suffix":"","institution":"PSL Research University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26392/galley/16028/download/"}]}