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Naigles, Letitia R. – First Language, 2020
This commentary critiques Ambridge's radical exemplar model of language acquisition using research from the Longitudinal Study of Early Language, which has tracked the language development of 30+ children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) since 2002. This research has demonstrated that the children's capacity for abstraction at the grammatical…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Longitudinal Studies, Grammar, Models
McClelland, James L. – First Language, 2020
Humans are sensitive to the properties of individual items, and exemplar models are useful for capturing this sensitivity. I am a proponent of an extension of exemplar-based architectures that I briefly describe. However, exemplar models are very shallow architectures in which it is necessary to stipulate a set of primitive elements that make up…
Descriptors: Models, Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Language Usage
Bula, Andrew – Journal of Practical Studies in Education, 2021
Reverend Father Professor Amechi Nicholas Akwanya is one of the towering scholars of literature in Nigeria and elsewhere in the world. For decades, and still counting, Fr. Prof. Akwanya has worked arduously, professing literature by way of teaching, researching, and writing in the Department of English and Literary Studies of the University of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Literary Criticism, Teaching Methods
Salverda, Anne Pier – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Lieberman, Borovsky, Hatrak, and Mayberry (2015) used a modified version of the visual-world paradigm to examine the real-time processing of signs in American Sign Language. They examined the activation of phonological and semantic competitors in native signers and late-learning signers and concluded that their results provide evidence that the…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning
Gup, Ted – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
Depending on how one does the math, there are between a quarter-million and a million words in the English language. Of all these words, the author holds in contempt only one. That word is "like"--not the tepid expression of mild appreciation but the parasitic form that now bleeds the mother tongue, marks the user as a dunce, and, were it truly…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Critical Thinking, Ambiguity (Semantics), Semantics
Vigliocco, Gabriella; Kousta, Stavroula; Vinson, David; Andrews, Mark; Del Campo, Elena – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2013
In Kousta, Vigliocco, Vinson, Andrews, and Del Campo (2011), we presented an embodied theory of semantic representation, which crucially included abstract concepts as internally embodied via affective states. Paivio (2013) took issue with our treatment of dual coding theory, our reliance on data from lexical decision, and our theoretical proposal.…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Semantics, Language Processing, Psychological Patterns
Paivio, Allan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2013
Kousta, Vigliocco, Del Campo, Vinson, and Andrews (2011) questioned the adequacy of dual coding theory and the context availability model as explanations of representational and processing differences between concrete and abstract words. They proposed an alternative approach that focuses on the role of emotional content in the processing of…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Semantics, Language Processing, Psychological Patterns
Song, Seonmi; Kellogg, David – Modern Language Journal, 2011
Vygotsky's work on the acquisition of foreign language words has been criticized for lacking a formal view of language as a system and for taking little interest in questions such as the route and rate of language acquisition. We argue that word meanings really do not constitute a formal system, either in the way they develop, or in the way they…
Descriptors: Language Research, Semantics, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development
Allan, Keith; Salmani Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Online Submission, 2015
This interview was conducted with Professor Keith Allan with the aim of providing a brief but informative summary of the state of the art of pragmatics. In providing answers to the interview questions, Professor Allan begins with a definition of pragmatics as it is practiced today, i.e., the study of the meanings of utterances with attention to…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Interviews, State of the Art Reviews, Definitions
Westermann, Gert; Ruh, Nicolas – Psychological Review, 2012
We present a neural network model of learning and processing the English past tense that is based on the notion that experience-dependent cortical development is a core aspect of cognitive development. During learning the model adds and removes units and connections to develop a task-specific final architecture. The model provides an integrated…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Semantics, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Aphasia
De Diego-Balaguer, Ruth; Rodriguez-Fornells, Antoni – Language Learning, 2010
Studies about bilingualism and second language acquisition (SLA) have a long tradition within linguistic and psycholinguistic research. The contributions from psycholinguistic research are crucial to the improvement of neurolinguistic models. This importance stems from the fact that psycholinguistic research is posing more specific questions than…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Language Processing
Tentori, Katya; Crupi, Vincenzo – Cognition, 2012
In this paper we question the theoretical tenability of Hertwig, Benz, and Krauss's (2008) (HBK) argument that responses commonly taken as manifestations of the conjunction fallacy should be instead considered as reflecting "reasonable pragmatic and semantic inferences" because the meaning of and does not always coincide with that of the logical…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Form Classes (Languages), Semantics, Inferences
Zamuner, Tania S. – Journal of Child Language, 2011
Within the subfields of linguistics, traditional approaches tend to examine different phenomena in isolation. As Stoel-Gammon (this issue) correctly states, there is little interaction between the subfields. However, for a more comprehensive understanding of language acquisition in general and, more specifically, lexical and phonological…
Descriptors: Phonology, Semantics, Nouns, Syntax
Slabakova, Roumyana – Second Language Research, 2009
While agreeing with Lardiere that the "parameter-resetting" approach to understanding second language acquisition (SLA) needs rethinking, it is suggested that a more construction-based perspective runs the risk of losing deductive and explanatory power. An alternative is to investigate the constraints on feature assembly/re-assembly in second…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Research, Grammar, Form Classes (Languages)
Koga, Kant – Online Submission, 2010
Language attracts everyone on earth. That is because we have and use language. Although there are some minority languages that have limited expressions such as the lack of writing systems in "Aynu itak" and "Shona" languages, they can effectively express their emotion and thought with their languages. In addition, every human being can acquire…
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Sentences, Semantics, Grammar