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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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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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Do we need summary and sequential scanning in (Cognitive) grammar? [PDF]
, 2007 Cognitive Grammar postulates two modes of cognitive processing for the structuring of complex scenes, summary scanning and sequential scanning. Generally speaking, the theory is committed to basing grammatical concepts upon more general cognitive ...
W. Hollmann +2 more
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The Cognitive Study of the Semantic Network of the "-ku:" Enclitic in Tangestani Dialect [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2020 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
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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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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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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A computational model of the referential semantics of projective prepositions [PDF]
, 2006 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 +4 more
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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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