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The relationship between two indices of the internal structure of natural-language categories, goodness-of-example (as measured by subjects’ ratings), and item dominance (as assessed by category-norm data) was assessed by correlational analysis. For all eight categories examined, the two variables are significantly positively correlated. Item dominance also bears some positive relationship to word frequency, while goodness-of-example does not.
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This research was conducted while Carolyn Mervis was a National Science Foundation predoctoral fellow, and was supported by a grant from the Cornell Research Grants Committee to Jack Catlin.
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Mervis, C.B., Catlin, J. & Rosch, E. Relationships among goodness-of-example, category norms, and word frequency. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 7, 283–284 (1976). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03337190
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