Clustering, Hierarchical Organization, and the Topography of Abstract and Concrete Nouns [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 The empirical study of language has historically relied heavily upon concrete word stimuli. By definition, concrete words evoke salient perceptual associations that fit well within feature-based, sensorimotor models of word meaning.
Joshua eTroche +2 more
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Metaphors are physical and abstract: ERPs to metaphorically modified nouns resemble ERPs to abstract language [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015 Metaphorical expressions very often involve words referring to physical entities and experiences. Yet, figures of speech such as metaphors are not intended to be understood literally, word-by-word.
Bálint eForgács +5 more
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Neural representation of nouns and verbs in congenitally blind and sighted individuals [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsIn blind individuals, language processing activates not only classic language networks, but also the “visual” cortex. What is represented in visual areas when blind individuals process language? Here, we show that area V5/MT in blind individuals, but not
Marta Urbaniak +3 more
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Tracking neural coding of perceptual and semantic features of concrete nouns. [PDF]
Neuroimage, 2012 We present a methodological approach employing magnetoencephalography (MEG) and machine learning techniques to investigate the flow of perceptual and semantic information decodable from neural activity in the half second during which the brain comprehends the meaning of a concrete noun.
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Interpretative Potential of Abstract and Concrete Common Nouns
СибСкриптThe article describes the interpretative potential of abstract and concrete common nouns. In interpretational linguistics, any word may become part of dialogue, which means that its semantics is not static.
E Yu. Pozdnyakova, N. N. Shpilnaya
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Prototypentheorie und Flexionsmorphologie [PDF]
Linguistik Online, 2004 This article presents an application of the theory of prototypes to the field of inflectional morphology and especially to the treatment of exceptions. From the assumption that the handling of irregular facts is basically ruled by the same principles of ...
Jacques Poitou
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Morphological criterion for distinguishing between abstract and concrete nouns: An experimental approach [PDF]
Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2021 In this paper, the problem of using a morphological criterion for distinguishing between abstract nouns and other lexico-grammatical categories of the Russian language was studied.
Yu.A. Volskaya
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A neurosemantic theory of concrete noun representation based on the underlying brain codes. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 This article describes the discovery of a set of biologically-driven semantic dimensions underlying the neural representation of concrete nouns, and then demonstrates how a resulting theory of noun representation can be used to identify simple thoughts ...
Marcel Adam Just +3 more
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Dissociable substrates underlie the production of abstract and concrete nouns. [PDF]
Brain Lang, 2017 Cousins KA, Ash S, Irwin DJ, Grossman M.
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MASS AND COUNTABILITY IN ENGLISH NOUNS [PDF]
آداب الرافدين, 1982 This paper attempts to elucidate and substantiate the points that there is a referential validity underlying nouns in English and that this validity is more apparent and consistent in concrete than in abstract nouns; also that abstract nouns, too ...
Mohammed Basil K. Al - Azzawi
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