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  1. Artifact categorization: The good, the bad, and the ugly.Barbara C. Malt & Steven A. Sloman - 2007 - In Eric Margolis & Stephen Laurence (eds.), Creations of the Mind: Theories of Artifacts and Their Representaion. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 85--123.
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    Historical Semantic Chaining and Efficient Communication: The Case of Container Names.Yang Xu, Terry Regier & Barbara C. Malt - 2016 - Cognitive Science 40 (8):2081-2094.
    Semantic categories in the world's languages often reflect a historical process of chaining: A name for one referent is extended to a conceptually related referent, and from there on to other referents, producing a chain of exemplars that all bear the same name. The beginning and end points of such a chain might in principle be rather dissimilar. There is also evidence supporting a contrasting picture: Languages tend to support efficient, informative communication, often through semantic categories in which all exemplars (...)
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    Words and the Mind: How Words Capture Human Experience.Barbara Malt & Phillip Wolff (eds.) - 2010 - Oxford University Press USA.
    The study of word meanings promises important insights into the nature of the human mind by revealing what people find to be most cognitively significant in their experience. However, as we learn more about the semantics of various languages, we are faced with an interesting problem. Different languages seem to be telling us different stories about the mind. For example, important distinctions made in one language are not necessarily made in others. What are we to make of these cross-linguistic differences? (...)
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    Category essence or essentially pragmatic? Creator’s intention in naming and what’s really what.Barbara C. Malt & Steven A. Sloman - 2007 - Cognition 105 (3):615-648.
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    Conceptual relations predict colexification across languages.Yang Xu, Khang Duong, Barbara C. Malt, Serena Jiang & Mahesh Srinivasan - 2020 - Cognition 201 (C):104280.
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    Why We Should Do Without Concepts.Barbara C. Malt - 2010 - Mind and Language 25 (5):622-633.
    Machery (2009) has proposed that the notion of ‘concept’ ought to be eliminated from the theoretical vocabulary of psychology. I raise three questions about his argument: (1) Is there a meaningful distinction between concepts and background knowledge? (2) Do we need to discard the hybrid view? (3) Are there really categories of things in the world that are the basis for concepts? Although I argue that the answer to all three is ‘no’, I agree with Machery's conclusion that seeking a (...)
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    Artifact category membership and the intentional-historical theory.Barbara C. Malt & Eric C. Johnson - 1998 - Cognition 66 (1):79-85.
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    Speaking versus thinking about objects and actions.Barbara C. Malt, Steven A. Sloman & Silvia P. Gennari - 2003 - In Dedre Gentner & Susan Goldin-Meadow (eds.), Language in Mind: Advances in the Study of Language and Thought. MIT Press. pp. 81--112.
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    More than words, but still not categorization.Barbara C. Malt & Steven A. Sloman - 2007 - Cognition 105 (3):656-657.
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    The Role of Theories in Conceptual Coherence Gregory L Murphy and Douglas L Medin.Sarah Hampson Clark, Reid Hastie, Robert Macauley, Barbara Malt, Glenn Nakamura, Andrew Ortony, Elissa Newport, Brian Ross & Richard Shweder Shoben - 1999 - In Eric Margolis & Stephen Laurence (eds.), Concepts: Core Readings. MIT Press.
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    Bilingual Object Naming: A Connectionist Model.Shin-Yi Fang, Benjamin D. Zinszer, Barbara C. Malt & Ping Li - 2016 - Frontiers in Psychology 7:179499.
    Patterns of object naming often differ between languages, but bilingual speakers develop convergent naming patterns in their two languages that are distinct from those of monolingual speakers of each language. This convergence appears to reflect interactions between lexical representations for the two languages. In this study, we developed a self-organizing connectionist model to simulate semantic convergence in the bilingual lexicon and investigate the mechanisms underlying this semantic convergence. We examined the similarity of patterns in the simulated data to empirical data (...)
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    Word Meaning.Barbara C. Malt - 1998 - In George Graham & William Bechtel (eds.), A Companion to Cognitive Science. Blackwell. pp. 331–337.
    Questions about the nature of word meaning have drawn attention across the cognitive science disciplines. Because words are one of the basic units of language, linguists working to describe the design of human language have naturally been concerned with word meaning. Perhaps less obvious, though, is the importance of word meaning to other disciplines. Philosophers seeking to identify the nature of knowledge and its relation to the world, psychologists trying to understand the mental representations and processes that underlie language use, (...)
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    Convergence in the Bilingual Lexicon: A Pre-registered Replication of Previous Studies.Anne White, Barbara C. Malt & Gert Storms - 2017 - Frontiers in Psychology 7.
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  14. Part 1. How Concepts Shift: Variation Across Individuals, Times, and Contexts : 1. Mapping Thoughts to Words: Cross-Language Differences, Learning, and Communication. [REVIEW]Barbara C. Malt - 2020 - In Teresa Marques & Åsa Wikforss (eds.), Shifting Concepts: The Philosophy and Psychology of Conceptual Variability. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
     
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