0 A prototypical example of something is a first example from which all later forms can be developed: --
The prototypical traumatic victimization in this literature was a terrifying, unpredictable event, occurring to an otherwise unsuspecting and unafflicted person.
If not otherwise specified, the term 'descriptive genitive' in the present article refers to the prototypical case of 'classifying genitive'.
Both younger and older adults rated "fever" and "hepatitis" as the two most prototypical but differed on their rankings of all other items.
Prototypical examples of intrinsic motivation include play, exploration, and curiosity-oriented behaviors.
Fricatives and oral stops, which are phonetically prototypical continuants and non-continuants, are much more consistent in their patterning with respect to [continuant].
Thus, a target use might be classified as prototypical for some participants but peripheral for others, depending on their actual judgments.
However, in a prototypical context (in a description of a sequence of events) the overall percentage of children using ingressives is much higher.
Not only do they use both short and long forms available in the language, they passivize experiential verbs as well as the prototypical action verbs.
