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Τhe primitives of the lexicon: Insights from aspect in idioms
This work discusses the primitives of the mental lexicon through exploring aspectual compositionality in VP idioms. A comparison between idiomatic VPs and their non-idiomatic counterparts is employed to show whether the determination of aspect in idioms ...
Evelina Leivada
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Supported Decision‐Making Rights in Behaviour Support Policies
ABSTRACT Disability policy emphasises that people with disability have the right to exercise their will and preferences in their lives, and decision‐making support must be provided to realise this right if they request. One context in which people's will and preferences are often restricted is behaviour support.
Sally Robinson +6 more
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In this study, we investigated the relationship between mothers’ psychological lexicon and children’s cognitive and socio-emotive development as assessed through conceptual and semantic understanding tasks, in addition to the traditional tasks of theory ...
Dolores eRollo, Francesco eSulla
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Sublexical vs. supralexical representation of morphological encoding: Towards a reconciliation [PDF]
Lexical morphemes such as roots, stems, inflectional and derivational affixes constitute the basic ingredients of words in languages. After 30 years of investigations, the majority of the psycholinguists nowadays agree in assigning a central role to ...
Giraudo, hélène, Montermini, Fabio
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Usage Effects on the Cognitive Routinization of Chinese Resultative Verbs [PDF]
The present study adopts a corpus-oriented usage-based approach to the grammar of Chinese resultative verbs. Zooming in on a specific class of V-kai constructions, this paper aims to elucidate the effect of frequency in actual usage events on shaping the
Wang Ben Pin-Yun
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Abstract A recent debate has emerged between Caspar et al. (2024) and Herculano‐Houzel (2023) on inferring extinct dinosaur cognition by estimating brain neuron counts. While thought‐provoking, the discussion largely overlooks the function of cognition, as well as partly neglects the difficulties involved in estimating neuron numbers, which according ...
Thomas Rejsenhus Jensen +7 more
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The article asks the question about the influence of age on language behaviour of German studies students in the context of activation of the mental lexicon.
Joanna Franek-Zaborowska
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Abstract Engaging students and fostering interactions can be a challenge in large enrollment, foundational‐level, undergraduate anatomy classes. Despite the active learning environment of the anatomy laboratory, students often struggle to find study partners or even speak to fellow learners in a large classroom.
Kristin Stover +2 more
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Persian compounds in the mental lexicon
Compound words exhibit properties of both single words and phrases, raising the question of the extent to which compounds are processed as single units or as word combinations.
Bahareh Yousefzadeh +2 more
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Toward a cognitive organization for electronic dictionaries, the case for semantic proxemy [PDF]
We compare a psycholinguistic approach of mental lexicon organization with a computational approach of implicit lexical organization as found in dictionaries. In this work, we associate dictionaries with 'small world' graphs.
Desalle, Yann +3 more
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