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Effects of Emotional and Sensorimotor Knowledge in Semantic Processing of Concrete and Abstract Nouns [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2012
There is much empirical evidence that words’ relative imageability and body-object interaction (BOI) facilitate lexical processing for concrete nouns (e.g., Bennett, Burnett, Siakaluk, & Pexman, 2011).
P. Ian Newcombe   +3 more
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Object numerosity influence sensorimotor programs evoked by graspable object nouns [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
Grasping actions can be evoked and modulated by a range of linguistic and abstract concepts, including object nouns, adjectives and numbers. The present study investigated whether the grasp-compatibility effect—typically elicited by graspable object ...
Gioacchino Garofalo   +3 more
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Neural representation of nouns and verbs in congenitally blind and sighted individuals [PDF]

open access: yesNature Communications
In blind individuals, language processing activates not only classic language networks, but also the “visual” cortex. What is represented in visual areas when blind individuals process language? Here, we show that area V5/MT in blind individuals, but not
Marta Urbaniak   +3 more
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Le nom émotion et son rapport à peur, colère, joie

open access: yesCorela, 2021
With the massive entry into the use of the name “emotion” as a generic name for all psychological manifestations, due to the popularization of specialist discourse in psychology, the arts, etc., there is the temptation to consider this name, from the ...
Emilia Hilgert
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Old Romanian pluralized mass and abstract nouns [PDF]

open access: yesDiacronia, 2017
The analysis of a rich old Romanian corpus shows that the ‘pluralization’ of mass and abstract nouns is extremely frequent in old Romanian. The semantic effects of pluralization are similar for mass and abstract nouns, consisting in the creation of ...
Gabriela Pană Dindelegan
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Baltic Abstracts in *-ī-bā

open access: yesActa Baltico-Slavica, 2023
Baltic abstracts in -ība (e.g. Lith. dial. gyvýba ‘life’ / Latv. dzīvība ‘life’) are built on the basis of the old abstract formations in *-ī < IDE *-ih2, acc.sg. *-ijan. From the acc.sg. *-ijan, a new nom.sg.
Norbert Ostrowski
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Morphological criterion for distinguishing between abstract and concrete nouns: An experimental approach

open access: yesУченые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2021
In this paper, the problem of using a morphological criterion for distinguishing between abstract nouns and other lexico-grammatical categories of the Russian language was studied.
Yu.A. Volskaya
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Ways to quantify of abstract nouns in the modern Erzya language

open access: yesФинно-угорский мир, 2021
Introduction. The article analyzes abstract nouns based on the material of the modern Erzya language, which in various contexts can be concretized, becoming the basis for the formation of their plural.
Lyubov P. Vodyasova
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MASS AND COUNTABILITY IN ENGLISH NOUNS [PDF]

open access: yesآداب الرافدين, 1982
This paper attempts to elucidate and substantiate the points that there is a referential validity underlying nouns in English and that this validity is more apparent and consistent  in concrete than in abstract nouns;  also that abstract nouns, too ...
Mohammed Basil K. Al - Azzawi
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Stilistic And Syntactic Variation Of German Prepositions

open access: yesVestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2014
This work is devoted to the stylistic and syntactic variation of prepositions per and via in the publicistic style of modern German language. The similarity of German prepositions with the units of significant vocabulary in the aspect of variation is ...
Elvira L. Shubina
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