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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 14.
Published in final edited form as: Aphasiology. 2015 Aug 26;30(9):1012–1025. doi: 10.1080/02687038.2015.1081140

Table 2.

Examples of Semantic Knowledge Types and Category Types

Semantic Knowledge and Category Types Words
Living Things Mom, sisters, prince, horses, girls, mice
Nonliving Things castle, house, ball, signs, trunk
Visual-Color White, pink
Visual-Parts and Surface Glass, big, young, small, little, foot, face
Visual-Motion Go, chasing, dancing, running, went
Smell Smells
Sound (Clock) strikes, laughing, listening, said
Tactile Dress, put on, wear, have, hold
Taste Food, cook, taste, pumpkin, eat
Function Clean, scrub, pumpkin, wand, drive
Encyclopedic Castle, home, night, twelve o'clock, outside
Internal Cruel, mean, thinking, sad