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Grounded Cognition Entails Linguistic Relativity: A Neglected Implication of a Major Semantic Theory
Topics in Cognitive Science, Volume 15, Issue 4, Page 615-647, October 2023., 2023 Abstract According to the popular Grounded Cognition Model (GCM), the sensory and motor features of concepts, including word meanings, are stored directly within neural systems for perception and action. More precisely, the core claim is that these concrete conceptual features reuse some of the same modality‐specific representations that serve to ...
David Kemmerer
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The Multiple Perspectives Theory of Mental States in Communication
Cognitive Science, Volume 47, Issue 7, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Inspired by early proposals in philosophy, dominant accounts of language posit a central role for mutual knowledge, either encoded directly in common ground, or approximated through other cognitive mechanisms. Using existing empirical evidence from language and memory, we challenge this tradition, arguing that mutual knowledge captures only a ...
Daphna Heller, Sarah Brown‐Schmidt
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Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 5, Issue 2, February 2023., 2023 We did not find a substantial change in terms of the poor getting a fair share of benefits (i.e., tourism benefits) from the park even after two decades of buffer zone establishment and management guidelines as benefits are still skewed toward the rich and influential people. In contrast, costs (i.e., crop damage due to wildlife) are disproportionately
Kabindra Shahi +4 more
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Sports Medicine - Open, 2017 Background Gorkhas, a sub-mountainous population of the Himalayan region, are known for strength and bravery. In the present study when “Gorkha” is used without brackets, we are mentioning Gorkhas of Tibeto-Burman origin.
Seema Malhotra +9 more
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A Phonological Study of Rongpa Choyul
Languages, 2023 This paper presents a detailed description of the phonology of the Rongpa variety of Choyul, an understudied Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Lithang (理塘) County, Dkarmdzes (甘孜) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province, China. Based on firsthand
Jingyao Zheng
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PLoS ONE, 2014 The greater Himalayan region demarcates two of the most prominent linguistic phyla in Asia: Tibeto-Burman and Indo-European. Previous genetic surveys, mainly using Y-chromosome polymorphisms and/or mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms suggested a ...
Thirsa Kraaijenbrink +21 more
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A Study of Tenselessness in Rengma (Western)
Languages, 2019 Rengma is a Tibeto−Burman language from the Naga group (Angami−Pochuri) spoken in Northeast India. The paper is one of the first attempts in documenting the Western Rengma language, a variety of Rengma found in Karbi Anglong district, Assam ...
Monali Longmailai
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Egophoricity, Involvement, and Semantic Roles in Tibeto-Burman Languages
Open Linguistics, 2017 In this study, we explore typological aspects of egophoricity marking based on selected Tibeto- Burman languages. Conceptualizing egophoricity as an autonomous grammatical category that marks access to knowledge, we first discuss how egophoricity marking
Widmer Manuel, Zúñiga Fernando
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Journal of Karnali Academy of Health Sciences, 2023 Background: Alcohol poisoning associated with traditionally fermented alcoholic beverages have been reported in Nepal with the constituents of these beverages not being quantified usually. In traditionally fermented alcoholic beverages, methanol, due to
Apurba Acharya +3 more
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The Historical Dynamics of Morphological Complexity in Trans-Himalayan
Linguistic Discovery, 2015 An examination of morphological complexity in Himalayan ...
Scott DeLancey
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