
Viorica Marian - The Power of Language
How To Academy Podcast
00:00
The Effect of Form Similarity on Perception of Similar Words
Form similarity can influence how similar people perceive those items to be in some languages for example. like to an English speaker you know a candy in the walk is probably not related or candle but in Spanish speaker's mind they are much more likely to think that they are related if you have them just do simple experiments of how similar it is. There are lots of things like that because of form but not only form there are other components that drive similarity so another example would be let's say a concept is represented of multiple different features such as wheels and a handlebar on a bike.
Play episode from 40:42
Transcript


