Budding metaphors: Input-output effects in metaphor production. [PDF]
PLoS OneGaskins DK, Rundblad G.
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The Gradability of ‘Conscious’
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 112, Issue 2, Page 392-405, March 2026.ABSTRACT Are some creatures “more conscious” than others? A number of consciousness researchers have aimed to answer this question. Yet some have claimed that this question does not even make sense. They claim that “conscious” (in the phenomenal sense) never occurs as a gradable adjective, meaning an adjective that permits degree expressions (“more f ...
Andrew Y. Lee, Poppy Mankowitz
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Lexicogrammatical profiling of ASD: cognitive-functional mapping and diagnostic implications. [PDF]
Front Hum NeurosciKato S, Hanawa K.
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In Defense of a Pragmatic Interpretation of Bambi Sentences
Ratio, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 1-9, March 2026.ABSTRACT This paper addresses the debate surrounding bound uses of names. My primary aim is to argue that bound interpretations of names do not provide evidence that names semantically have bound uses. I begin by outlining the motivation for the view that names do have semantic bound uses, then offer several reasons to reject this view.
Seong Soo Park
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Reply to Kljajevic's "Increasing sensitivity of clinical proverb tests for diagnosis of dementia". [PDF]
Alzheimers DementChakrabarty M, Biswas A.
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Nigerian English research: Developments and directions
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 182-198, March 2026.Abstract This article describes the progress made by scholars over a period of more than five decades in the field of Nigerian English studies. It will thus serve as a useful tool for those researching in this field; and apparently there has been no such attempt to date to review the research landscape of Nigerian English in order to show its key ...
David Jowitt, Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
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No one-to-one mapping between typologies of pragmatic relations and models of pragmatic processing: a case study with mentalizing. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol SciKatsos N, Kissine M.
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Verb patterning and acculturation in Nigerian English
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 54-75, March 2026.Abstract Speech communities have the tendency to develop habits as to which words tend to co‐occur, in the form of coinages and collocational patterns, thus constituting an aspect conducive to the subtle emergence of language variation. As these co‐occurrence tendencies become lexicalised and confined to specific, rigid word combinations, new ...
Mary Ifeoluwa Abidoye, Hans‐Georg Wolf
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Skills from a 79-year-old Essay on Politics by Orwell Applied to Scientific Writing. [PDF]
Indian J Psychol MedNayok SB, Satish S.
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Characterizing the patient experience of physical restraint in psychiatric settings via a linguistic, sentiment, and metaphor analysis. [PDF]
Sci RepNichini C +17 more
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