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Levy, David K. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2003
Considers two notable recent philosophical theories of concepts in relation to some challenges set by Wittgenstein in his notorious private language argument. The challenge is formulated in terms of constraints on the explanation of the relation between thought and language. Shows how these theories of concepts relate to constraints that arise…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Inner Speech (Subvocal), Language Processing
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McRae, Ken; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Suggests that thematic roles might best be viewed as verb-specific concepts and that this conceptual/world knowledge is computed and used immediately in online language processing. Discusses results in relation to other recent treatments of thematic roles as well as constraint-based and garden path models. (68 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: College Students, Concept Formation, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Roelofs, Ardi – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Argues that cross-morpheme and cross-word syllabification in the WEAVER model of speech production point to the need to deal with flexibility of syllable membership and pose difficulty to a memory-based approach but not to WEAVER. The study reviews empirical support for the form of syllabification in WEAVER and reports an experiment on…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Concept Formation, Dutch, Language Processing