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Automatic classification of abstractness in English rigid nouns [PDF]
, 2023 The main difference between (i) Mass-Count Languages (such as English) and (ii)Classifiers Languages (such as Chinese) is that (i) encode the information about nouns’ countability in their grammar and (ii) employ a classification system of classifiers to
Saponaro, Alberto
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Ученые 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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Neural substrates of figurative language during natural speech perception: an fMRI study
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2013 Many figurative expressions are fully conventionalized in everyday speech. Regarding the neural basis of figurative language processing, research has predominantly focused on metaphoric expressions in minimal semantic context.
Arne eNagels +5 more
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Semantic Density and Gravity in Lay-oriented Medical Knowledge Communication
NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2022 This article explores a particular medico-pharmaceutical genre called the European Assessment Report (EPAR) summary for the public, aimed at a lay readership. The texts provide general information about specific medicinal products and report the outcome
Aage Hill-Madsen
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NeuroImage, 2021 Current theories of pre-attentive change detection suggest a regularity or prediction violation mechanism involving a frontotemporal network. Modulations of the early inferior frontal cortex (IFC) mismatch response representing the effort in comparing a ...
Chun-Yu Tse +3 more
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Concepts, abstractness, and inner speech
, 2022 We explore the role of inner speech (covert self-directed talk) during the acquisition and use of concepts differing in abstractness. Following Vygotsky, inner speech results from the internalization of linguistically mediated interactions that regulate ...
Charles Fernyhough, Anna M. Borghi
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COMBINATORIAL SET OF LEXICO-GRAMMATICAL CLASSES OF NOUNS IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2020 The article focuses on the changes of nouns, the lexico-grammatical features of which make it impossible to refer them to a specific lexico-grammatical class.
Mariya L. Lapteva, Natalya V. Lukina
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Representations of refugees: linguistic abstractness and social perceptions
Ψυχολογία: το Περιοδικό της Ελληνικής Ψυχολογικής Εταιρείας, 2023 The paper examines the relationship among stereotype content, essentialism, and preferred language abstraction in refugee media representations. In two studies, participants were asked to choose captions of differential degree of language abstraction ...
Ελένη Λυπουρλή +1 more
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Multi-Dimensional Abstractness in Cross-Domain Mappings [PDF]
, 2019 Metaphor is a cognitive process that shapes abstract target concepts by mapping them to concrete source concepts. Thus, many computational approaches to metaphor make reference, directly or indirectly, to the abstractness of words and concepts.
Dunn J
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Abstractness emerges progressively over the second year of life
Scientific Reports, 2022 Abstract words, terms not referring to here and now, are acquired slowly in infancy. They are difficult to acquire as they are more detached from sensory modalities than concrete words.
Francesca Bellagamba +5 more
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