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Externalism, internalism and logical truth [PDF]
, 2009 The aim of this paper is to show what sorts of logics are required by externalist and internalist accounts of the meanings of natural kind nouns. These logics give us a new perspective from which to evaluate the respective positions in the externalist ...
Besson, Corine
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Predicting Human Brain Activity Associated with the Meanings of Nouns
Science, 2008 The question of how the human brain represents conceptual knowledge has been debated in many scientific fields. Brain imaging studies have shown that different spatial patterns of neural activation are associated with thinking about different semantic ...
Tom Michael Mitchell +6 more
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Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017 Important advances have recently been made using computational semantic models to decode brain activity patterns associated with concepts; however, this work has almost exclusively focused on concrete nouns.
A. Anderson +3 more
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Analyses of the semantic features of the lexical bundle [(VERB) PREPOSITION the NOUN of]
Language Value, 2019 Author/s Siaw-Fong Chung F.Y. August Chao Tien-Yu Lan Yen-Yu Lin National Chengchi University, Taiwan ABSTRACT This paper investigates twenty-two prepositions in two different lexical bundles – [PREPOSITION the NOUN of] (at the point of ...
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Rapid learning of an abstract language-specific category: Polish children's acquisition of the instrumental construction [PDF]
, 2008 Rapid acquisition of linguistic categories or constructions is sometimes regarded as evidence of innate knowledge. In this paper, we examine Polish children's early understanding of an idiosyncratic, language-specific construction involving the ...
Bańko +15 more
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Morphology, 2018 Many languages have an interesting class of nouns, the pluralia tantum, which have restricted number possibilities when, in some sense, they should not. Thus English binoculars has no singular, which is worth noting (that is, it is not predictable). True,
G. Corbett
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Discrete Entailment-Based Linking and -EE Nouns in English [PDF]
, 2007 Barker (1998) argues that since the referent of an -ee noun can be an indirect object, a direct object, a prepositional object, or a subject, -ee nouns cannot be described as a syntactic natural class.
González, Luis
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Demonyms and Compound Relational Nouns in Nominal Open IE
AKBC@NAACL-HLT, 2016 Extracting open relational tuples that are mediated by nouns (instead of verbs) is important since titles and entity attributes are often expressed nominally.
Harinder Pal, Mausam
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Nominal ellipsis as a collaborative effort
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2016 Following fundamental minimalist assumptions, this study aims to explain the distribution of nominal ellipsis (NE, henceforth) in Spanish as the result of last resort constraints at different components of the grammar.
Emma Ticio
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Beyond gender stereotypes in language comprehension: self sex-role descriptions affect the brain’s potentials associated with agreement processing [PDF]
, 2015 We recorded Event-Related Potentials to investigate differences in the use of gender information during the processing of reflexive pronouns. Pronouns either matched the gender provided by role nouns (such as “king” or “engineer”) or did not. We compared
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