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tic stereotypes: models capturing the nature of prototypically organized
lectal categories) are emerging that operate in the same manners for the
same tokens. For this panel of young listeners the two Andalusian accents
were identified correctly at the level or area (south) and community (Anda-
lucía) and so were the scores for Madrid at all three levels. It must be borne
in mind, however, that Madrid is a special case for at least three reasons:
first, because it represents the default standard accent, omnipresent in the
media. Second, because it is the predominant accent spoken in the child-
ren’s own geographical surroundings, and third, because the autonomous
community of Madrid is composed of one province only: the province of
Madrid. Correct results at the level of province were only attributed when
the children explicitly stated the term province in their reply, but we still
expect the good results at the most fine-grained level to be influenced by
the correspondence between hypernym and hyponym.
Table 5. Global results of Experiment 1 across age groups and response levels: age
group 6-7
Age/Location Area Com Prov Area Com Prov
6-7 0.2 (1/5) 0.0588 (1/17) 0.02 (1/50)
Andalucía 1 60 32 4 0.0000 0.0000 0.3124
Galicia 1 6 0 0 0.0133 0.0772 0.3124
Madrid 1 30 16 16 0.0771 0.0024 0.0000
Tenerife 1 10 4 0 0.0771 0.5720 0.3124
Andalucía 2 32 24 4 0.0339 0.0000 0.3124
Galicia 2 8 6 0 0.0339 0.9712 0.3124
Madrid 2 36 22 22 0.0047 0.0000 0.0000
Tenerife 2 10 6 0 0.0771 0.9712 0.3124
8-9
Andalucía 1 62 52 4 0.0000 0.0000 0.3124
Galicia 1 6 4 0 0.0133 0.5720 0.3124
Madrid 1 62 52 40 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
Tenerife 1 6 0 0 0.0133 0.0772 0.3124
Andalucía 2 34 32 0 0.0133 0.0000 0.3124
Galicia 2 20 14 0 1.0000 0.0147 0.3124
Madrid 2 48 42 30 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
Tenerife 2 2 2 0 0.0015 0.2435 0.3124