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A Cognitive Linguistics Application for Second Language Pedagogy: The English Preposition Tutor
This study investigated the effects of teaching English prepositions using schematic diagrams inspired by cognitive linguistics in a computer-based tutorial system called the English Preposition Tutor.
Man Ho Ivy Wong+2 more
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Applied cognitive linguistics and foreign language learning. Introduction to the special issue
This introduction provides an overview of the intersection between Applied Cognitive Linguistics and Second/Foreign Language Learning. First, the relevance of Cognitive Linguistics (CL) for Applied Linguistics in general is discussed.
Alberto Hijazo-Gascón+1 more
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Generalized relations in linguistics & cognition [PDF]
Categorical compositional models of natural language exploit grammatical structure to calculate the meaning of sentences from the meanings of individual words. This approach outperforms conventional techniques for some standard NLP tasks. More recently, similar compositional techniques have been applied to conceptual space models of cognition.
Bob Coecke+4 more
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Applying Cognitive Linguistics to teaching English prepositions in the EFL classroom
This paper reports on a quasi-experimental study investigating the effect of cognitive linguistics-grounded instruction on learning the prepositions in, on, and at, which are known to pose tremendous difficulty to English language learners due to their ...
David Wijaya, Gabriel Ong
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The paper demonstrates how contrastive linguistics may receive a fresh breath of life from approaching certain problems from the cognitive linguistic point of view.
Rita Brdar-Szabó, Mario Brdar
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Which linguistic cues make people fall for fake news? A comparison of cognitive and affective processing [PDF]
Fake news on social media has large, negative implications for society. However, little is known about what linguistic cues make people fall for fake news and, hence, how to design effective countermeasures for social media. In this study, we seek to understand which linguistic cues make people fall for fake news.
arxiv
The semiotics of gestures in cognitive linguistics : Contribution and challenges
The present study addresses some of the fundamental issues and challenges of the semiotics of gestures in cognitive linguistics. Showing that cognitive linguists have contributed to the study of gesture forms and functions in various areas of research ...
O. Iriskhanova, A. Cienki
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Intonational variation and incrementality in listener judgments of ethnicity
The current study examines how listeners make gradient and variable ethnolinguistic judgments in an experimental context where the speaker’s identity is well-known. It features an open-guise experiment (Soukup, 2013) that assessed whether sociolinguistic
Dan Villarreal, Nicole Holliday
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Large language models and (non-)linguistic recursion [PDF]
Recursion is one of the hallmarks of human language. While many design features of language have been shown to exist in animal communication systems, recursion has not. Previous research shows that GPT-4 is the first large language model (LLM) to exhibit metalinguistic abilities (Begu\v{s}, D\k{a}bkowski, and Rhodes 2023).
arxiv
COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AS A METHODOLOGICAL PARADIGM [PDF]
A general direction in which cognitive linguistics is heading at the turn of the century is outlined and a revised understanding of cognitive linguistics as a methodological paradigm is suggest.
Kravchenko, Prof. A.V.
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