<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . "The Origin of Words: A Psychophysical Hypothesis"^^ . "It is hypothesized that words originated as the names of perceptual categories and that\ntwo forms of representation underlying perceptual categorization -- iconic and categorical\nrepresentations -- served to ground a third, symbolic, form of representation. The third form of\nrepresentation made it possible to name and describe our environment, chiefly in terms of categories,\ntheir memberships, and their invariant features. Symbolic representations can be shared because they\nare intertranslatable. Both categorization and translation are approximate rather than exact, but the\napproximation can be made as close as we wish. This is the central property of that universal\nmechanism for sharing descriptions that we call natural language. "^^ . "1996" . . . "NJ:Erlbaum"^^ . . . "Communicating Meaning: Evolution and Development of Language"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Stevan"^^ . "Harnad"^^ . "Stevan Harnad"^^ . . "D."^^ . "Rumbaugh"^^ . "D. Rumbaugh"^^ . . "B."^^ . "Velichkovsky"^^ . "B. Velichkovsky"^^ . . . . . . "The Origin of Words: A Psychophysical Hypothesis (HTML)"^^ . . . "harnad96.word.origin.html"^^ . . . "The Origin of Words: A Psychophysical Hypothesis (Indexer Terms)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #1602 \n\nThe Origin of Words: A Psychophysical Hypothesis\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Cognitive Psychology" . . . "Semantics" . . . "Philosophy of Language" . .