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Vigliocco, Gabriella; Vinson, David P.; Lewis, William; Garrett, Merrill F. – Cognitive Psychology, 2004
This paper presents the Featural and Unitary Semantic Space (FUSS) hypothesis of the meanings of object and action words. The hypothesis, implemented in a statistical model, is based on the following assumptions: First, it is assumed that the meanings of words are grounded in conceptual featural representations, some of which are organized…
Descriptors: Semantics, Hypothesis Testing, Models, Syntax