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de Long, Shauna P. A.; Folk, Jocelyn R. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
The current study investigated whether semantic (meaning) knowledge benefits learning orthography (spelling). Adult readers read 14 novel non-words embedded in sentences with informative or uninformative context. Orthographic and semantic posttests assessed learning. In E1, results indicated that the relationship between context and orthographic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Incidental Learning, Spelling, Psycholinguistics
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
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
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
Zalavina, Tatyana Y.; Kisel, Olesya V. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
Phraseology is one of the basic and most important objects of study in cognitive linguistics. The article deals with verbal fixed phrases in their correlation with the cognitive structure of knowledge--a concept. The used definitional analysis method to identify the basic notions of the conceptual content of the concept of blame and basic…
Descriptors: Semantics, French, Phrase Structure, Psycholinguistics
Sungjin Nam – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This dissertation presents various machine learning applications for predicting different cognitive states of students while they are using a vocabulary tutoring system, DSCoVAR. We conduct four studies, each of which includes a comprehensive analysis of behavioral and linguistic data and provides data-driven evidence for designing personalized…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Student Evaluation, Learning Analytics
Nagovitsyna, N. V. – Russian Education & Society, 2018
The article presents the procedure and results of a linguistic experimental study of the cognitive characteristics underlying basic ideas about patriotism in the modern Russian language consciousness as identified by the author from previous studies of the semantic content of the concept of PATRIOTISM in accordance with language data. The purpose…
Descriptors: Russian, Language Usage, Patriotism, Semantics
Hampton, James A. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
Two experiments tested a set of predictions regarding category definitions and categorization latencies. Neither prediction was supported by the experiment results, leading to the formulation of an alternative feature-based model of category definitions using the notion of a polymorphous concept. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Definitions, Experimental Psychology, Memory
Griffin, Peg – Linguistic Reporter, 1974
In this column, the term "pragmatics", a part of linguistic analysis, is explained. The study of pragmatics concerns language usage in natural context. The item of analysis is not the sentence, but the utterance of the sentence in a particular well-defined set of contexts. (SW)
Descriptors: Definitions, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory, Linguistics

Litowitz, Bonnie – Journal of Child Language, 1977
The nature of the task of defining words by means of other words and the development of language responses (from children aged four to seven) are discussed in terms of a linguistic analysis of the definitional form and its semantic relations. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Concept Formation, Definitions, Language Acquisition

Andersen, Elaine S. – Journal of Child Language, 1975
Children aged 3, 6, 9 and 12 years were asked to name and sort 25 different drinking vessels. Results showed three stages: (1) they ove rextend the term "cup"; (2) they focus only on certain perceptual properties; (3) they show growing awareness of functional properties and hence the vagueness of the boundary. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Definitions
Richards, Jack C. – RELC Journal, 1974
This article discusses various approaches to vocabulary selection for second language teaching. The criteria of availability, familiarity, coverage, and meaning are suggested as important in vocabulary selection. (AM)
Descriptors: Definitions, Language Instruction, Lexicology, Psycholinguistics
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
Ortony, Andrew – 1979
The standard dictionary definition of a metaphor--a word or phrase applied to an object or concept that it does not literally denote in order to suggest comparison with another object or concept--is inadequate in that it does not deal with whole sentence metaphors and that it provides no way of distinguishing between a metaphor and a semantic…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Comprehension, Context Clues, Definitions
Wilbur, Ronnie B.; Menn, Lise – 1975
Evidence for speaker knowledge of morphological patterns, both derivational and inflectional, is not limited to productive patterns. Nonproductive patterns appear to be accessible in such a way that accessibility (a term preferred to "psychological reality") may be viewed as a function of four somewhat interdependent factors: (1) productivity, (2)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Definitions, Dictionaries, Language Acquisition