TY - JOUR AU - Eessalu, Martin PY - 2012/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The categorization of the Estonian domain of “musical instruments” ‒ listeners vs musicians and the comparison of basic levels JF - Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics JA - ESUKA-JEFUL VL - 3 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.12697/jeful.2012.3.1.11 UR - https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/jeful/article/view/jeful.2012.3.1.11 SP - 227-242 AB - <p><span style="left: 208.226px; top: 273.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.948426);"> The article examines the prototypicality phenomena in the </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 293.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.991485);">Estonian language’s lexical-semantic domain of “musical instruments”. </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 313.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00991);">There are two groups of people under examination: (i) those who con</span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 333.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.984262);">sider themselves actively involved in music (practitioners), and (ii) </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 353.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.93706);">those who don’t (listeners). To elicit basic terms, a cognitive salience </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 373.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00094);">index is used. The results show that the main common feature between </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 393.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01152);">the groups is that the basic level consists of the same members: </span><span style="left: 572.304px; top: 393.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00905);">klaver</span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 413.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.940628);">‘piano’, </span><span style="left: 198.314px; top: 413.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.08492);">kitarr</span><span style="left: 236.914px; top: 413.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.884384);"> ‘guitar’ and </span><span style="left: 332.381px; top: 413.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.973806);">viiul</span><span style="left: 361.959px; top: 413.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.954687);"> ‘violin’. While </span><span style="left: 476.344px; top: 413.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00905);">klaver</span><span style="left: 518.131px; top: 413.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.947887);"> and </span><span style="left: 556.736px; top: 413.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.973806);">viiul</span><span style="left: 586.314px; top: 413.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.948919);"> are </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 433.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.03268);">stable in their nature, the salience of </span><span style="left: 394.874px; top: 433.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.08492);">kitarr</span><span style="left: 433.474px; top: 433.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.03708);"> varies greatly, as listeners </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 453.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00708);">put it in the leading position and practitioners nearly leave it out of the </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 473.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.947478);">basic level. Generally, the two groups share the same category struc</span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 493.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.940858);">ture, as based on cognitive salience index values both have: (i) three </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 513.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.933049);">basic terms, (ii) a connecting group, and (iii) the rest of the category </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 533.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.998861);">members with their index values decreasing toward zero</span></p> ER -