Abstract / Description of output
We present a general framework for capturing categorical crosslinguistic transfer effects – the influences of linguistic and conceptual categories in a bilingual speaker’s languages on each other. By formulating the phenomenon as an instance of cognitive category shift, we achieve a general method for investigating the extent and causes of crosslinguistic transfer in terms of a category similarity space and a set of weighting factors. We apply the model to the well-understood domain of color, formulating transfer as the modulation of conceptual color categories in one language on those of the other language. We analyze the components of the model that predict salient aspects of human data on an observed transfer effect in a range of languages.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2018) |
| Editors | Chuck Kalish, Marina Rau, Tim Rogers, Jerry Zhu |
| Publisher | Cognitive Science Society |
| Pages | 744–749 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-0-9911967-8-4 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-5108-7205-9 |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
| Event | 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - Madison, United States Duration: 25 Jul 2018 → 28 Jul 2018 http://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference/cogsci-2018/ |
Conference
| Conference | 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society |
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| Abbreviated title | CogSci 2018 |
| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Madison |
| Period | 25/07/18 → 28/07/18 |
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