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Singh, Raj; Fedorenko, Evelina; Mahowald, Kyle; Gibson, Edward – Cognitive Science, 2016
According to one view of linguistic information (Karttunen, 1974; Stalnaker, 1974), a speaker can convey contextually new information in one of two ways: (a) by "asserting" the content as new information; or (b) by "presupposing" the content as given information which would then have to be "accommodated." This…
Descriptors: Semantics, Pragmatics, Sentences, Discourse Analysis
Lipschultz, Michael; Litman, Diane; Katz, Sandra; Albacete, Patricia; Jordan, Pamela – Grantee Submission, 2014
Post-problem reflective tutorial dialogues between human tutors and students are examined to predict when the tutor changed the level of abstraction from the student's preceding turn (i.e., used more general terms or more specific terms); such changes correlate with learning. Prior work examined lexical changes in abstraction. In this work, we…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Natural Language Processing, Semantics, Abstract Reasoning
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Linde, Charlotte; Labov, William – Language, 1975
An initial description of the links between cognitive input, discourse rules, and the rules of sentence grammar is made, based on a technique developed for observing the translation of cognitive input into language in a spontaneous, practical speech event: descriptions of the lay-outs of apartments. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Language Research
Goldberg, Genevieve – Etudes de Linguistique Appliquee, 1977
A discourse analysis of sixty French children aged ten to twelve from two socioeconomic groups. The object of the study was to describe the syntactic-semantic functioning of their language in an "abstract" situation and to determine the degree of influence of socio-cultural factors. (Text is in French.) (AMH)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Child Language, Cultural Influences, Discourse Analysis
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Benzon, William; Hays, David G. – Computers and the Humanities, 1976
The nature of computational linguistics, and formulation of problems in literary analysis to which this approach can be applied, are considered. A review of current work in this field and an illustration of how this work might be used in an analysis of Shakespeare's writing are presented. (RW)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Processes, Computational Linguistics
Scott, Robert Ian – Journal of English Teaching Techniques, 1969
Students who are taught to understand and apply Korzybski's uses of semantics to their writing will learn to write more concretely. As students locate words and descriptions vertically on Korzybski's scale of abstraction levels, they will become able to perceive how meanings change when descriptions become either more general or specific, to…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Communication Skills, Descriptive Writing, Discourse Analysis
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Moran, Terence P. – College English, 1974
Our linguistic environment is so polluted at every level that meaningless, uncritical pseudocommunication is becoming the preferred norm even among the highly educated. (JH)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Commercial Television, Communication (Thought Transfer), Descriptive Linguistics
Hurtig, Richard – 1974
In the first section a sketch of a tense logic is presented and a mechanism is suggested for including aspects of the tense logic into the Grammar (theory of language). Specifically, several grammatical structures are shown to incorporate temporal features. A semantic projection mechanism is utilized to amalgamate the temporal features in elements…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adverbs, Cognitive Processes, Conjunctions
Robb, Martha; Lord, Catherine – 1981
The range of meanings of "big" and "little" that mothers and their three children under age two expressed in relatively natural communication situations was studied. Longitudinal data from transcripts of conversations of middle-class mothers and their children were analyzed along with diary records kept by parents of their children's use of size…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adjectives, Child Language, Cognitive Development