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A Cognitive Sketch of the Lexical Item Phobia [PDF]
This study is about the mode of representing lexical information in the mental lexicon. Itcarries out the investigation within the framework of Cognitive Lexical Semantics, asubfield of semantics which deals with the cognitive aspects of lexical meanings: whatlexical items mean and how they are stored in the speaker's mind.
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Taking a cognitive lexical semantics perspective, the article introduces the concept of conceptual silencing as a rhetorical tool. Understood as a process of conceptual dissolution of meaning to offer a more coarse-grained sense of an expression ...
Przemysław Wilk
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Linguistic Insights into Eurolect of Institutional Documents Based on the System of Logico-Semantic Relations [PDF]
The present article draws primarily on a text-based approach while aiming attention at researching one genre of EU legal language the judgement in its English language version by employing quantitative and qualitative research methods and serves as a ...
Vladislav Hrežo
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THE SOCIODIALECTAL DIMENSION IN THE LEXICON OF THE BRAZILIAN LINGUISTIC ATLAS [PDF]
It’s possible to speak of lexical mobility today, lexical flow, lexical continuum due to speakers’ communicative mobility. In fact, the lexicon is an important dimension in which it is possible to map the variability and measure its productivity.
Abdelhak Razky
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Towards a Reduction of Grammar Teaching a Lexical Analysis
Learning a language is essentially learning vocabulary, and it is the lexical competence that enables the learners to use the language with ease. It will be argued that such an ability includes, among the important ones, the knowledge of semantic ...
Priyono Priyono
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Relationship Between Age and Lexical Access
Lexical access refers to the retrieval of the word considered to be appropriate from the lexicon. The related lexical items are assumed to be arranged in a specific pattern. When the related items are presented in succession, it may evoke facilitation or
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The meaning of any given lexical item emerges from an analysis of its contextual usage, but with biblical languages, often a traditional gloss will be accepted as if it were the clear meaning of a lexical item. Lexicons and dictionaries rarely go all the
Douglas T. Mangum
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ERP measures of semantic richness: The case of multiple senses
Semantic richness refers to the amount of semantic information that a lexical item possesses. An important measure of semantic richness is the number of related senses that a word has (e.g., TABLE meaning a piece of furniture, a table of contents, to lay
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BackgroundStory recall (SR) tests have shown variable sensitivity to rate of cognitive decline in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) biomarkers. Although SR tasks are typically scored by obtaining a sum of items recalled, item-level analyses may ...
Kimberly D. Mueller +15 more
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Shared Lexical Items as Triggers of Code Switching
Abstract Why do bilingual speakers code-switch (mix their two languages)? Among the several theories that attempt to explain this natural and ubiquitous phenomenon, the triggering hypothesis relates code-switching to the presence of lexical triggers, specifically cognates and proper names, adjacent to the switch point.
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