Cover -- Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Bridging the Category Divide -- Introduction -- Organization of the book -- Major common themes -- The notions of category and categorization -- The nature of categories: Discrete, vague, or other -- Are there modality effects on categories? -- Are there universal categories? Are there innate categories? -- Bridging the category divide -- References -- Part 1 - Categorization in Cognitive Science -- To Cognize is to Categorize: Cognition is Categorization -- Abstract -- Sensorimotor systems -- Invariant sensorimotor features ("affordances") -- Categorization -- Learning -- Innate categories -- Learned categories -- Supervised learning -- Instrumental (operant) learning -- Color categories -- Categorical perception -- Learning algorithms -- Unsupervised learning -- Supervised learning -- Vanishing intersections? -- Direct sensorimotor invariants -- Abstraction and hearsay -- Abstraction and amnesia -- Invariance and recurrence -- Feature selection and weighting -- Discrimination versus categorization -- Recoding and feature selection -- Learned categorical perception and the Whorf hypothesis -- Uncertainty reduction -- Explicit learning -- Categorization is abstraction -- Sensorimotor grounding: direct and derivative -- The adaptive advantage of language: hearsay -- Absolute discriminables and affordances -- Cognitive science is not ontology -- Cognition is categorization -- Appendix A. There is nothing wrong with the "classical theory" of categorization -- Appendix B. Associationism begs the question of categorization -- References -- A Modular Approach to Grammatical Categories Evidence from Language Diversity and Contact -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Modularity and mismatch.

Grammaticalization: The case of pe in Sranan (Suriname) -- Mismatches in complexity of representations: The case of ku in Cuzco Quechua (Peru) -- Lexical nondistinctness -- The case of timap in Palikur -- 'For' prepositions to become complementizers -- Adjectives versus adverbs -- Lexical overspecification: Dutch gender and definiteness -- The status of null elements: Subjects in Sranan and Papiamentu -- Partially overlapping categories: predicate adjectives in Creoles -- Differences in lexical richness -- Evidence from language contact -- Otomanguean-Spanish language contact -- Borrowing of content words in Salishan languages -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix -- References -- Philosophical Analysis as Cognitive Psychology: The Case of Empty Concepts* -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Misadventures of the Classical View -- Terminological issues -- Existential vs. (purely) intentional usage -- Concepts as between representations and referents -- The inadequacies of Externalism -- The need for internal roles -- The Quinean challenge -- The analytic data -- Rivals to the Analytic Explanation -- Quine -- Fodor -- Conclusion -- References -- Categories and Cognitive Anthropology* -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Cognition and culture, universalism and relativism -- Paradigms and taxonomies -- Kinship terminologies -- Color classification -- Ethnobiology -- Towards a science of the stimulus -- References -- Categorization in Neuroscience: Brain Response to Objects and Events -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Representing object categories in the brain -- Category-specific representation -- Feature-specific representation -- Process-specific representation -- Summary -- Acquiring category knowledge -- Summary -- Categorizing actions and events -- The nature of event knowledge -- When categorization of action fails -- The perception of events -- Summary.

Conclusion -- References -- Categorization in Cognitive Computer Science -- Abstract -- Computation in cognitive science -- The great categorization debates -- From local features to global structures -- Categorization and reasoning -- Levels of cognition -- References -- Part 2 - Semantic Categories -- Semantic Categorization -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The notional approach to lexical categories -- The notional approach to lexical subcategories -- Structural approach to semantic categories -- Coordinators and subordinators -- English nouns -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Emotion Categories across Languages -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Methods of assessing cultural emotion systems -- The Method of Translation -- The Method of Mapping -- Theories of emotion -- Cross-cultural scenarios as a tool to compare emotion categories -- Conclusion -- References -- The World Color Survey Database -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The WCS: History and methodology -- Data processing and analysis -- Cleaning the data -- Original format of the data and creation of the WCS Online Data Archive -- Uses of the WCS archive -- Universals of color naming -- Variation in color naming -- Conclusion -- References -- Atoms, Categorization and Conceptual Change -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Theories of concepts -- The ancient concept of an atom -- Revival of the concept of the atom -- Modern development of the concept of an atom -- Theories and meaning -- Conclusion -- References -- Relations between Language and Thought: Individuation and the Count/Mass Distinction* -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Strong discontinuity proposals -- Quine -- Abstract individuation in language and thought -- Weak discontinuity proposals -- Crosslinguistic studies -- Language-on-language effects -- Material and shape cues in labeling and categorization -- Conclusion.

References -- Definitions in Categorization and Similarity Judgments -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Importance rating and property selection -- Method -- Results -- Categorization judgments -- Method -- Results -- Discussion -- Similarity judgments -- Method -- Results -- General discussion -- References -- Why (Most) Concepts aren't Categories -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Species are not categories -- Three kinds of (Aristotelian) "substances" -- Historical kinds -- Eternal kinds -- Individuals -- Concepts of individuals -- Concepts of substances more generally -- Substances encountered through language -- References -- Part 3 - Syntactic Categories -- Lexical, Functional, Crossover, and Multifunctional Categories* -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Categories as feature bundles -- The system -- Natural classes -- Unnatural classes -- Categories and phrase structure -- Lexical and functional categories -- Articulation of functional categories -- Articulation below N and V -- Crossover and multifunctionality -- Crossover projections -- Multifunctional categories -- Where do categorial distinctions reside? -- Conclusions -- References -- Isolating-Monocategorial-Associational Language -- Abstract -- Introduction -- What IMA Language is Like -- Isolating -- Monocategorial -- Associational -- Where IMA Language Is Found -- Semiotics -- Phylogeny -- Ontogeny -- Typology -- Riau Indonesian: overview -- Riau Indonesian: analysis -- Riau Indonesian: A Relative IMA Language -- Cognition -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Categories in Quebec Sign Language: Reflections on Categorization across Modalities -- Abstract -- The categories of lexical items -- Traditional categorization applied to LSQ -- Nouns and verbs -- Pronouns and definite determiners -- Pronouns in oral languages and in sign languages -- The effects of perceptual substances on linguistic forms.

Explaining the different properties -- Participant deixis -- Inclusion/exclusion of the speaker or hearer -- Spatial deixis: proximity, distance, visibility (for third person) -- Number -- Class/gender -- Case markings -- Summary -- Consequences for linguistic categorization and universals -- References -- Syntactic Categories in Signed versus Spoken Languages -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Lexical categories -- Grammatical structures -- Subordination -- "Spatial syntax" -- Pronouns -- Verb agreement -- Analyses of spatial syntax -- Complications -- The use of space to represent space -- Word order -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix. Notational conventions -- References -- On Syntactic Categories -- References -- Part 4 - Acquisition of Categories -- The Acquisition of Grammatical Categories: the State of the Art -- Abstract -- Grammatical categories -- Two-word utterances and their analysis -- A semantic approach to grammatical categorization: Semantic bootstrapping -- Distributional learning -- Word order -- Inflection and inflectional class -- Function words -- Word classes -- Other cues to grammatical category learning -- Models of distributional learning -- Constraining the search space -- Conclusion -- References -- Semantic Categories in Acquisition -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Space -- Shape -- Adding common ground -- Conceptual domains and lexical options -- Adding meaning in the course of conversation -- Universals in mapping? -- Conclusion -- References -- Early Syntactic Categories in Infants' Language -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The acquisition of grammatical categories and the earliest binary distinction of function words and content words -- Input speech and the categorization of function words and content words -- Function words and language acquisition -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgment -- References.

Acquiring Auditory and Phonetic Categories*.