Embodied-Cognitive Linguistics: Integrating Marxist perspectives on contemporary Cognitive Linguistics theory [PDF]
Honglin Zhou, Xiaoyang Luo
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Production of prosodic cues in coordinate name sequences addressing varying interlocutors
Prosodic boundaries can be used to disambiguate the syntactic structure of coordinated name sequences (coordinates). To answer the question whether disambiguating prosody is produced in a situationally dependent or independent manner and to contribute to
Carola de Beer +3 more
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Conceptual Metaphors of time in Persian: A cognitive and Corpus-based Approach [PDF]
Metaphor is a systematic mapping between two conceptual domains. In metaphor; an experimental domain called as source domain is mapped into another domain as target domain.
Fattemeh Raiisi +3 more
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How thresholding in segmentation affects the regression performance of the linear model [PDF]
Evaluating any model underlying the control of speech requires segmenting the continuous flow of speech effectors into sequences of movements. A virtually universal practice in this segmentation is to use a velocity-based threshold which identifies a ...
Stephan R. Kuberski, Adamantios I. Gafos
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AbstractCognitive linguistics is one of the fastest growing and influential perspectives on the nature of language, the mind, and their relationship with sociophysical (embodied) experience. It is a broad theoretical and methodological enterprise, rather than a single, closely articulated theory. Its primary commitments are outlined.
Hans-Jörg Schmid, Friedrich Ungerer
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A book review: Metaphor and Emotion: Language, Culture, and Body in Human Feeling, by Zoltan Kövecses [PDF]
After the publication of the influential book The Metaphors We Live By, by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in 1980, many thinkers have started studying the conceptual metaphor’s various dimensions besides how it affects thinking and everyday life.
Fatemeh Shafiei
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Children’s Learning of Non-adjacent Dependencies Using a Web-Based Computer Game Setting
Infants show impressive speech decoding abilities and detect acoustic regularities that highlight the syntactic relations of a language, often coded via non-adjacent dependencies (NADs, e.g., is singing).
Mireia Marimon +9 more
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Empty names, hallucinations, and semantics
In this paper we introduce the problem space of the intersection of hallucinatory experiences and hallucinatory thoughts involving empty names. We recount a brief history of the theory of names. We select and defend a direct reference theory of names. We
Fred Adams, Andrew Jackson
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Ten Lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar [PDF]
In this book, Martin Hilpert lays out how Construction Grammar can be applied to the study of language change. In a series of ten lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar, the book presents the theoretical foundations, open questions, and ...
Hilpert, Martin
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Digital joint action: Avatar-mediated social interaction in digital spaces
This article proposes a framework to characterize joint action in digital spaces. “Digital joint action” maintains many known elements from physical, real-world joint action including representations relating to joint goals and individual subgoals ...
Mariano Pugliese, Cordula Vesper
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