Larry Barsalou's note via Mike Tomasello

[David B. Kronenfeld]

        In reference to Larry Barsalou's very interesting information
regarding exemplars vs. prototypes, it is worth noting that the
exemplar/prototype distinction has not been made within much semantic work
in anthropology, where the contrast has been "prototype" ("kernel" or
"core")-based definitions vs. distinctive feature definitions of whole
categories.  Discussions of "prototypes" in anthropology may really, to a
greater or lesser degree, pertain to Barsalou's exemplars; it will be
necessary to consider the ways that the "prototypes" in question are
actually defined and used in any given case to determine how they relate to
the exemplar/prototype distinction.
        I offer this observation because there seems some possibility of
useful insights coming from both directions, and it would be a shame if such
exchange were short-circuited by a labeling glitch.