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WIREs Cognitive Science, 2010 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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Toward an Embodied Cognitive Semantics [PDF]
Cognitive Semantics, 2015 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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A Probabilistic Semantics for Cognitive Maps [PDF]
, 2015 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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Why semantics cannot be but cognitive. Coseriu’s criticism of cognitive semantics
, 2021 In a 1997 paper, Violi wondered whether semantics could be non–cogni-tive. This question is still significant since, in the last decades, cognitive semantics has been thought of as the more suitable paradigm to investi-gate the profound “mystery of meaning” precisely because of its criticism of a presumed “non–cognitive” (i.e.
Filomena Diodato
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, 2023 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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Cross-linguistic influence of propositional and lexical semantics errors in Indonesian learner texts
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022 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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Figures of Speech in Cognitive Semantics
Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2019 This study is an attempt to investigate a range of figures of speech by taking a series of examples from Shaw’s ‘Man and Superman’ to be analysed under cognitive semantic theory of Mental Spaces. The study aims to provide a counter argument that dramatic
Nabaz Ismael Hamad +2 more
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Factoring Predicate Argument and Scope Semantics : underspecified Semantics with LTAG [PDF]
, 2003 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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Active Zone Constructions in Shape Adjectives: An Example of the Adjective Yuvarlak
Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2020 Cognitive semantics, which has gained acceleration in the last ten years, is a point of view that sees individual’s perception and cognitive level as variables in meaning production process.
Ayşe Eda GÜNDOĞDU
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Insights into Language, Culture and Communication, 2022 The present study investigates the presentation of the two American candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the presidential elections that occurred through the year 2016 in the world news.
Donia Nagy Saeed Diab
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