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Metaphors and the Invention of Writing
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract The foundation of ancient, invented writing systems lies in the predominant iconicity of their sign shapes. However, these shapes are often used not for their referential meaning but in a metaphorical way, whereby one entity stands for another.
Ludovica Ottaviano +3 more
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Is the Prosodic Structure of Texts Reflected in Silent Reading? An Eye-Tracking Corpus Analysis. [PDF]
J Eye Mov ResPalmović M, Cergol K.
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Language Production and Prediction in a Parallel Activation Model
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Standard models of lexical production assume that speakers access representations of meaning, grammar, and different aspects of sound in a roughly sequential manner (whether or not they admit cascading or interactivity). In contrast, we review evidence for a parallel activation model in which these representations are accessed in parallel ...
Martin J. Pickering, Kristof Strijkers
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Mountable miniature microphones to identify and assign mouse ultrasonic vocalizations. [PDF]
Cell Rep MethodsWaidmann EN +4 more
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Numbers on the Visigothic Slates: A Cognitive Approach
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Numerical notation found on multiple slates from Early Medieval Visigothic Iberia remains undeciphered. Previous studies have proposed that they simply represent Roman numerals. However, the comparative study of the numbers on the written and numerical slates suggests that they do not in fact represent the same graphic code.
Nerea Fernández Cadenas
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Places as refrains: A non‐constructive alternative to assemblage thinking
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Abstract Over the past 20 to 30 years, relational, post‐humanist, processual, and non‐representational approaches to space and place have gained an increasing purchase within anglophone human geography, whether underpinned by academic engagements with Western philosophy, anthropology, or indigenous thinking and praxis.
Peter Merriman
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Nigerian English research: Developments and directions
World Englishes, EarlyView.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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