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Be concrete to be comprehended:consistent imageability effects in semantic dementia for nouns, verbs, synonyms and associates [PDF]
, 2013 There are two contrasting views on the nature of comprehension impairment in semantic dementia: (a) that it stems from degradation of a pan-modal "hub" that represents core conceptual knowledge or (b) that it results from degradation of modality-specific
Hoffman, Paul; id_orcid +5 more
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Countability shifts and abstract nouns [PDF]
, 2020 Abstract The paper examines the mass-count distinction in abstract nouns, starting from the corpus-derived observation that most of the nouns that can be used in count or mass syntactic contexts (“elastic nouns”) are (arguably) abstract.
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Is there a semantic system for abstract words? [PDF]
, 2013 Two views on the semantics of concrete words are that their core mental representations are feature-based or are reconstructions of sensory experience. We argue that neither of these approaches is capable of representing the semantics of abstract words ...
Richard P. Cooper +5 more
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BergelsonLab/seedlings-nouns: v1.0.0
, 2023 Annotated nouns from the SEEDLingS ...
Zhenya
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Conceptual Abstractness: from Nouns to Verbs [PDF]
, 2018 Investigating lexical access, representation and processing involves dealing with conceptual abstractness: abstract concepts are known to be more quickly and easily delivered in human communications than abstract meanings (Binder et al., 2005). Although these aspects have long been left unexplored, they are relevant: abstract terms are widespread in ...
COLLA, DAVIDE +3 more
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Kalbotyra, 2017 This paper presents an analysis of the expression of evidentiality with the English nouns evidence, indication, proof and sign and their Spanish equivalents evidencia, indicación, prueba and señal.
Marta Carretero
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015 Metaphorical expressions very often involve words referring to physical entities and experiences. Yet, figures of speech such as metaphors are not intended to be understood literally, word-by-word.
Bálint eForgács +5 more
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An ALE meta-analytical review of the neural correlates of abstract and concrete words
Scientific Reports, 2021 Several clinical studies have reported a double dissociation between abstract and concrete concepts, suggesting that they are processed by at least partly different networks in the brain.
Madalina Bucur, Costanza Papagno
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Enhancing automatic text summarisation by resolving anaphora and identifying abstract and concrete nouns [PDF]
Revista Română de Informatică și AutomaticăThe primary goal of text summarisation is to distil the most important details and turn them into a brief version that still captures the source material’s main points.
Sanah Nashir SAYYED, Namrata MAHENDER
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Entity, event, and sensory modalities: An onto-cognitive account of sensory nouns
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 Nouns in human languages mostly profile concrete and abstract entities. But how much eventive information can be found in nouns? Will such eventive information found in sensory nouns have anything to do with the cognitive representation of the basic ...
Yin Zhong +2 more
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