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Crime Investigations: The Countability Profile of a Delinquent Noun
The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2016 This paper aims to broaden our understanding of countability beyond what is found with concrete nouns, providing a one-word case study of the countable and non-countable uses of the noun crime.
Scott Grimm
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Modeling the meaning of words: Neural correlates of abstract and concrete noun processing
Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, 2011 We present a model relating analysis of abstract and concrete word meaning in terms of semantic features and contextual frames within a general framework of neurocognitive information processing. The approach taken here assumes concrete noun meanings to be intimately related to sensory feature constellations.
Frida, Mårtensson +3 more
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Methodological approach to the noun gender and number categories in textbook for the second grade of elementary school [PDF]
Методичка праксаGiven that the gender and number of nouns are adopted for the first time in the second grade of elementary school in Republic of Serbia. The subject of this research is the way of processing these grammatical categories at the age when the concepts of ...
Vesić Ljubica D., Mitrović Milena B.
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Uncanny Sums and Products May Prompt “Wise Choices”: Semantic Misalignment and Numerical Judgments
Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2016 Automatized arithmetic can interfere with numerical judgments, and semantic misalignment may diminish this interference. We gave 92 adults two numerical priming tasks that involved semantic misalignment.
Ethan C. Brown +3 more
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The Usages of the Verb “to be” in Written Turkish
Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2015 The basic vocabulary of the language and its dictionary meanings are consist of nouns and verbs. Nouns identify the presence and distinguish them from other assets. Verbs, on the other hand , describe the actions of known, the known assets of every kind (
Sertan ALİBEKİROĞLU
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Reflexiones acerca de construcciones verbo-nominales/cvn [PDF]
Linguística, 2006 This contribution deals with the great variety of phenomena which may be covered by the term “verbonominal constructions” (for instance collocations, phraseological units) and suggests a subdivision for the lexicalized and not yet lexicalized ...
Gerd Wotjak
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The Effects of Emotional Valence and Arousal in the Free Recall of Serbian Nouns
Primenjena PsihologijaRecent studies demonstrated inconsistent patterns of results regarding emotional valence (EV) and arousal (A) in memorising words. According to the representational substitution hypothesis, emotions play a central role in representing abstract words ...
Katarina Protić +1 more
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Concretion. (noun, ?1541 AD - now)
Taking a cue from, and echoing, the oft-repeated call in media studies to move from studying media to mediation, this keyword-memo suggests concretion as a possible critical term in media theory today. In doing so, it tracks a speculative deep history of concretion, reflects upon the limited kinds of argumentations available to scholars in the field ...
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Abstract Word Definition in Patients with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment
Behavioural Neurology, 2015 The aims of this study were to investigate concrete and abstract word definition ability (1) between patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) and normal adults and (2) between the aMCI subtypes (i.e., amnestic single-domain MCI and ...
Soo Ryon Kim +3 more
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013 Current grounding theories propose that sensory-motor brain systems are not only modulated by the comprehension of concrete but also partly of abstract language.
Sabine eWeiss +4 more
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