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A Probabilistic Semantics for Cognitive Maps [PDF]
Cognitive maps are a graphical knowledge representation model that describes influences between concepts, each influence being quantified by a value. Most cognitive map models use values the semantics of which is not formally defined. This paper introduces the proba-bilistic cognitive maps, a new cognitive map model where the influence values are ...
Le Dorze, Aymeric +5 more
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Toward an Embodied Cognitive Semantics [PDF]
This article strives to move forward toward an embodied account of cognitive semantics. Using current empirical embodiment findings and theoretical interpretations thereof, the major schematic systems of Talmyan cognitive semantics (configurational structure, attention, perspective, and force dynamics) are all presented within one unified embodied ...
Kurt Stocker, Stocker, Kurt
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The Primary Need of Man to Respect in the Quranic Perspective, Emphasizing Structural and Cognitive Semantics [PDF]
Providing human need for respect, merit and power leads to his self-esteem, self-realization and success and inflict a blow to this need also causes feelings of weakness and humiliation.
mahdi safurayi +2 more
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The Cognitive Study of the Semantic Network of the "-ku:" Enclitic in Tangestani Dialect [PDF]
One of the main concepts in cognitive linguistics is that each unit of language has a semantic network. In this approach, morpheme, categories, and syntactic constructs all have a symbolic unit.
Heydar Yazdanshenas +3 more
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Cross-linguistic influence of propositional and lexical semantics errors in Indonesian learner texts
Advanced language acquisition applies rigorous understanding of the target language (TL) which oftentimes achieved by comparing mother tongue features to the TL.
Devina Devina
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AbstractThe words and grammar of any language encode a vast array of complex prepackaged concepts, most of them language‐specific and culture‐related. These concepts are manipulated routinely in almost every waking hour of most people's lives. They are largely acquired in infancy and they are intersubjectively shared among members of the speech ...
Goddard, Cliff, Wierzbicka, Anna
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Factoring Predicate Argument and Scope Semantics : underspecified Semantics with LTAG [PDF]
In this paper we propose a compositional semantics for lexicalized tree-adjoining grammar (LTAG). Tree-local multicomponent derivations allow separation of the semantic contribution of a lexical item into one component contributing to the predicate ...
Joshi, Aravind K., Kallmeyer, Laura
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This open access book introduces Vector semantics, which links the formal theory of word vectors to the cognitive theory of linguistics. The computational linguists and deep learning researchers who developed word vectors have relied primarily on the ...
Kornai, András
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A computational model of the referential semantics of projective prepositions [PDF]
In this paper we present a framework for interpreting locative expressions containing the prepositions in front of and behind. These prepositions have different semantics in the viewer-centred and intrinsic frames of reference (Vandeloise, 1991).
Kelleher, John +2 more
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Cognitive Semantics, Linguistic Typology and Grammatical Polysemy: "Possession" and the English Genitive [PDF]
This paper explores the cognitive semantics of the typological category “possession” using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (nsm) approach. At the macro level, we argue that “possession” is not a unitary cognitive category for speakers, but instead ...
Wierzbicka, A, Goddard, C
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