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Péter Rácz; Ágnes Lukács – Cognitive Science, 2024
People learn language variation through exposure to linguistic interactions. The way we take part in these interactions is shaped by our lexical representations, the mechanisms of language processing, and the social context. Existing work has looked at how we learn and store variation in the ambient language. How this is mediated by the social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, Hungarian, Language Processing
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de Varda, Andrea Gregor; Strapparava, Carlo – Cognitive Science, 2022
The present paper addresses the study of non-arbitrariness in language within a deep learning framework. We present a set of experiments aimed at assessing the pervasiveness of different forms of non-arbitrary phonological patterns across a set of typologically distant languages. Different sequence-processing neural networks are trained in a set…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Phonology, Language Patterns, Language Classification
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Reali, Florencia – Cognitive Science, 2017
Multiple constraints, including semantic, lexical, and usage-based factors, have been shown to influence dative alternation across different languages. This work explores whether fine-grained statistics and semantic properties of the verb affect the acceptability of dative constructions in Spanish. First, a corpus analysis reveals that verbs of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Spanish, Language Usage, Language Patterns
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Yun, Hongoak; Choi, Soonja – Cognitive Science, 2018
This study has two goals. First, we present much-needed empirical linguistic data and systematic analyses on the spatial semantic systems in English and Korean, two languages that have been extensively compared to date in the debate on spatial language and spatial cognition. We conduct our linguistic investigation comprehensively, encompassing the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Spatial Ability, Contrastive Linguistics, Korean
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Nordmann, Emily; Cleland, Alexandra A.; Bull, Rebecca – Cognitive Science, 2013
Despite the fact that they play a prominent role in everyday speech, the representation and processing of fixed expressions during language production is poorly understood. Here, we report a study investigating the processes underlying fixed expression production. "Tip-of-the-tongue" (TOT) states were elicited for well-known idioms…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Language Processing
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Choi, Soonja; Hattrup, Kate – Cognitive Science, 2012
This study investigated the relative contribution of perception/cognition and language-specific semantics in nonverbal categorization of spatial relations. English and Korean speakers completed a video-based similarity judgment task involving containment, support, tight fit, and loose fit. Both perception/cognition and language served as resources…
Descriptors: Semantics, Video Technology, Language Patterns, Classification
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Webber, Bonnie – Cognitive Science, 2004
This paper surveys work on applying the insights of lexicalized grammars to low-level discourse, to show the value of positing an autonomous grammar for low-level discourse in which words (or idiomatic phrases) are associated with discourse-level predicate-argument structures or modification structures that convey their syntactic-semantic meaning…
Descriptors: Grammar, Surveys, Lexicology, Discourse Analysis