There are two primary approaches to measuring intersubject variations in sorting objects into categories. The first approach measures subject differences from a standard categorization. The second approach directly compares pairs of individual subject's sorts. Variations in sorts of rural Mexican-Spanish "have" verbs were analyzed using both approaches. The second approach revealed a consistent structure for a subset of the subjects not revealed by the first approach.
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