Ok. That's nice. And of course you automatically activate all
super-categories in order to inherit from them, so the problems come from
the fact that you don't really know - or your brain doesn't know - whether
you're really looking for the word for Red or the word for Colour. As you
say, it all fits into place in that view. That makes my day - thanks.
Dick

At 10:05 28/06/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>Dick Hudson wrote:
>
>>>It might be countered that classical anomics can know how to use a
>>>set of words such as those for colors and can recognize colors but
>>>can't match the words with the actual colors. In other words, we
>>>can have a dissociation between conceptual knowledge, on the one
>>>hand, and phonological and syntactic knowledge on the other.
>>>However, depending on the gravity of the lesion, classical anomics
>>>often just need to be tipped off on one or two initial phonemes
>>>in order to be able to match a given color with its corresponding
>>>color stimulus. So, the problem seems to be mostly one of
>>>whittling down the possibilities. If you say this color starts
>>>with a "b," then you're basically down to BLUE and BLACK
>>>instead of having to deal with the competition coming from all
>>>the basic color terms of English.
>>>
>>>
>>## Fascinating. That's the bit, along with tip-of-the-tongue phenomena,
>>that I can't explain. For me there's a one-one link between the colour
>>concept and the word concept, so why should any other words be relevant?
>>These data suggest that we actually attach all co-hyponyms to the hypernym
>>concept (e.g. 'colour') and then choose among them every time we want a
>>particular hyponym. Weird.
>>
>If we think about Langacker's ideas about profile and base, the base
>being made up of a domain matrix, then I think the pieces seem to
>fall together a bit. KNEE would activate lots of domains but one
>domain it would necessarily have to activate is that of  JOINTS,
>which in turn would mean that ELBOW, WRIST, ANKLE, etc.
>are also activated.
>
>Joe
>
>

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