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Emotion and language: valence and arousal affect word recognition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Emotion influences most aspects of cognition and behavior, but emotional factors are conspicuously absent from current models of word recognition. The influence of emotion on word recognition has mostly been reported in prior studies on the automatic ...
Brysbaert, Marc   +3 more
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Hedgehog Pillows and Squirrel Plates: Priming Semantic Structure in Children's Comprehension

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract We report three expression–picture‐matching experiments targeting preschoolers’ semantic processing. We assessed whether 3‐ and 4‐year‐olds’ interpretations of ambiguous novel noun–noun combinations (e.g., hedgehog pillow) were affected by immediate language experience and what role lexical items played in this process.
Judit Fazekas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is Black Always the Opposite of White? An Investigation on the Comprehension of Antonyms in People with Schizophrenia and in Healthy Participants

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences, 2015
The present investigation sought to expand our understanding of the cognitive processes underlying the recognition of antonyms and to evaluate whether these processes differed in patients with schizophrenia and in healthy controls.
Cristina Cacciari   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of automatic hypernym extraction from technical corpora in English and Dutch [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In this research, we evaluate different approaches for the automatic extraction of hypernym relations from English and Dutch technical text. The detected hypernym relations should enable us to semantically structure automatically obtained term lists from
Hoste, Veronique   +2 more
core  

SemEval-2016 Task 13: Taxonomy Extraction Evaluation (TExEval-2) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper describes the second edition of the shared task on Taxonomy Extraction Evaluation organised as part of SemEval 2016. This task aims to extract hypernym-hyponym relations between a given list of domain-specific terms and then to construct a ...
Bordea, Georgeta   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Type Theories and Lexical Networks: using Serious Games as the basis for Multi-Sorted Typed Systems

open access: yesJournal of Language Modelling, 2017
In this paper, we show how a rich lexico-semantic network which has been built using serious games, JeuxDeMots, can help us in grounding our semantic ontologies as well as different sorts of information in doing formal semantics using rich or modern type
Stergios Chatzikyriakidis   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The semantic classification of adjectives in the Bulgarian Wordnet: Towards a multiclass approach

open access: yesCognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2018
The semantic classification of adjectives in the Bulgarian Wordnet: Towards a multiclass approach The paper presents an attempt at semantic classification of adjectives in the Bulgarian wordnet.
Tsvetana Dimitrova, Valentina Stefanova
doaj   +1 more source

Linguistic imagology: origin and application

open access: yesДискурс профессиональной коммуникации, 2020
The article dwells on the origin and development of linguistic imagology, a new field of research which studies the linguistic aspect of foreign image representation in fiction literature, mass media and other types of discourse, as well as the ...
S. D. Kamalova
doaj   +1 more source

Перспективы упорядочения лингвистической терминосистемы [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The paper is devoted to the issues of unification and regularization of the terminological system of linguistics forming a basis of meta - language in given branch of science.
Азаматова, Ария Хазиевна
core   +2 more sources

Nigerian English: History, functions and features

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 7-18, March 2026.
Abstract This article offers a comprehensive overview of Nigerian English, a rapidly expanding variety of world Englishes, recognised as one of the fastest‐growing varieties of English globally in numerical terms. This article has four aims. First, it discusses the historical developments of English in Nigeria with reference to the events that led to ...
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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