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John Y. Kwak – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation articulates and defends a view about linguistic competence called 'variabilism'. According to variabilism, the epistemic demands of full linguistic competence vary in a particular way. More specifically, variabilism holds that different individual lexical application conditions (individually essential metaphysical ways of being…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Semantics, Vocabulary Development, Language Processing
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Günther, Fritz; Marelli, Marco – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
Effects of semantic transparency, reflected in processing differences between semantically transparent ("teabag") and opaque ("ladybird") compounds, have received considerable attention in the investigation of the role of constituents in compound processing. However, previous studies have yielded inconsistent results. In the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Processing, Vocabulary, Definitions
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Maciejewski, Greg; Klepousniotou, Ekaterini – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Semantic ambiguity has been shown to slow comprehension, although it is unclear whether this ambiguity disadvantage is attributable to competition in semantic activation or difficulties in response selection. We tested the two accounts by examining semantic relatedness decisions to homonyms, or words with multiple unrelated meanings (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Diagnostic Tests, Ambiguity (Semantics), Word Frequency
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Andrea Bruera; Yuan Tao; Andrew Anderson; Derya Çokal; Janosch Haber; Massimo Poesio – Cognitive Science, 2023
The meaning of most words in language depends on their context. Understanding how the human brain extracts contextualized meaning, and identifying where in the brain this takes place, remain important scientific challenges. But technological and computational advances in neuroscience and artificial intelligence now provide unprecedented…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Artificial Intelligence, Diagnostic Tests
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Polat, Yahya; Bajak, Satylmysh; Zhumaeva, Ainuska – Arab World English Journal, 2021
This article aims to propose a practical model for intra-lingual translation or "paraphrase" in another term. Paraphrase is a restatement of a text, rewording something written or spoken, especially to achieve greater clarity. This approach could help a troubled translator who is having issues translating a complex text into a receptor…
Descriptors: Translation, Phrase Structure, Language Processing, Semantics
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Hu, Zhiguo; Liu, Hongyan – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2019
To directly investigate the reciprocal causal relationship of the conceptual and affective meaning of words, two priming experiments were conducted with the lexical decision task. In Experiment 1, the influence of semantic relatedness on the affective priming effect was explored by manipulating the semantic associative strength between the prime…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Definitions, Decision Making, Task Analysis
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Nadia Lana; Victor Kuperman – Language Learning and Development, 2024
This study investigates the role of emotional linguistic input in learning novel words with abstract and concrete denotations. It is widely accepted that concrete words are processed more easily than abstract ones. Several theories of vocabulary acquisition additionally propose a critical role of sensorimotor and emotional information during novel…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, Semantics, Emotional Response
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Gui-yan, Wu; Hui-jia, Shen; Yu-tian, Mao; Zi-ji, Yuan; You-zhu, Feng – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
Red Culture is one of the symbols of Chinese national spirit in China. With the enhancement of China's international status, the world gets to know the Red Culture stage by stage. And yet, in the process of Red Culture's foreign publicity, the depth and breadth of cultural diffusion have been affected by different factors. This paper objectively…
Descriptors: Translation, Intercultural Communication, Tourism, Cultural Traits
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Hsiao, Yaling; Bird, Megan; Norris, Helen; Pagán, Ascensión; Nation, Kate – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Semantic diversity quantifies the similarity in the content of contexts a word has been experienced in. Four experiments investigated its effect on lexical and semantic judgments in 9- to 10-year-olds and adults. In Experiment 1, a cross-modal semantic judgment task, participants decided whether a visually presented word matched an audio…
Descriptors: Semantics, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Children
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Kennison, Shelia M.; Fernandez, Elaine C.; Bowers, J. Michael – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2014
The research investigated the roles of semantic and phonological processing in word production. Spanish-English bilingual individuals produced English target words when cued with definitions that were also written in English. When the correct word was not produced, a secondary task was performed in which participants rated the ease of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phonology, Prediction, Memory
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Rama, Pia; Relander-Syrjanen, Kristiina; Carlson, Synnove; Salonen, Oili; Kujala, Teija – Brain and Language, 2012
This fMRI study was conducted to investigate whether language semantics is processed even when attention is not explicitly directed to word meanings. In the "unattended" condition, the subjects performed a visual detection task while hearing semantically related and unrelated word pairs. In the "phoneme" condition, the subjects made phoneme…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Semantics, Attention, Language Processing
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Mainela-Arnold, Elina; Evans, Julia L.; Coady, Jeffry A. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2010
Purpose: In this study, the authors investigated potential explanations for sparse lexical-semantic representations in children with specific language impairment (SLI) and typically developing peers. The role of auditory perception, phonological working memory, and lexical competition were investigated. Method: Participants included 32 children…
Descriptors: Semantics, Definitions, Language Impairments, Competition
Herrmann, Douglas J.; Chaffin, Roger – 1984
The relation definition theory proposed in this paper is explicitly different from previous semantic memory theories since it is the first to make a relation's definition the basis of semantic processing. The paper suggests that this relation definition theory successfully predicts relation similarity on the basis of one key primary assumption:…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Definitions, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
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Marinellie, Sally A.; Johnson, Cynthia J. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2004
The present investigation is a study of the definitional style of nouns and verbs in typically developing school-age children. A total of 30 children in upper-elementary grades provided verbal definitions for 10 common high-frequency nouns (e.g., apple, boat, baby) and 10 common high- frequency verbs (e.g., climb, sing, throw). All definitions…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Nouns, Syntax
Bidlack, Betty M. – 1985
A study of the development of abstract noun definitions in children and adolescents had as its subjects 120 students evenly divided into age groups of 10-, 14-, and 18-year-olds, randomly selected from students scoring in the 40th to 88th percentiles on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (for 10-year-olds) and the Tests of Achievement and Proficiency…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Age Differences, Children
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