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Akari Ohba – ProQuest LLC, 2024
One of the fundamental questions in the field of language acquisition is a learnability problem, which considers how learners acquire certain aspects of language which are not directly provided in the input or whose referents are not readily observable. This dissertation investigates Japanese children's acquisition of various linguistic phenomena,…
Descriptors: Empathy, Verbs, Japanese, Self Concept
Léo Picat; Salvador Mascarenhas – Cognitive Science, 2024
We investigate the articulation between domain-general reasoning and interpretive processes in failures of deductive reasoning. We focus on illusory inferences from disjunction-like elements, a broad class of deductive fallacies studied in some detail over the past 15 years. These fallacies have received accounts grounded in reasoning processes,…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Linguistics
Thornton, Chris – Cognitive Science, 2021
Semantic composition in language must be closely related to semantic composition in thought. But the way the two processes are explained differs considerably. Focusing primarily on propositional content, language theorists generally take semantic composition to be a truth-conditional process. Focusing more on extensional content, cognitive…
Descriptors: Semantics, Cognitive Processes, Linguistic Theory, Language Usage
De Deyne, Simon; Navarro, Danielle J.; Collell, Guillem; Perfors, Andrew – Cognitive Science, 2021
One of the main limitations of natural language-based approaches to meaning is that they do not incorporate multimodal representations the way humans do. In this study, we evaluate how well different kinds of models account for people's representations of both concrete and abstract concepts. The models we compare include unimodal distributional…
Descriptors: Models, Definitions, Concept Formation, Linguistics
Crossley, Scott; Wan, Qian; Allen, Laura; McNamara, Danielle – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Synthesis writing is widely taught across domains and serves as an important means of assessing writing ability, text comprehension, and content learning. Synthesis writing differs from other types of writing in terms of both cognitive and task demands because it requires writers to integrate information across source materials. However, little is…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Cognitive Processes, Essays, Cues
Martin Fuchs – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Some links between linguistic meanings and markers change systematically and cyclically in what are known as "grammaticalization paths." Although the empirical observations that give rise to these characterizations are cross-linguistically robust, the representations and cognitive processes that support these shifts are still not well…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Spanish, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Variation
Dudley, Rachel – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation focuses on when and how children learn about the meanings of the propositional attitude" verbs know" and "think". "Know" and "think" both express belief. But they differ in their veridicality: "think" is non-veridical and can report a false belief; but "know" can only…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Processes, Child Development, Verbs
Crossley, Scott; Wan, Qian; Allen, Laura; McNamara, Danielle – Grantee Submission, 2021
Synthesis writing is widely taught across domains and serves as an important means of assessing writing ability, text comprehension, and content learning. Synthesis writing differs from other types of writing in terms of both cognitive and task demands because it requires writers to integrate information across source materials. However, little is…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Cognitive Processes, Essays, Cues
Davis, E. Emory; Landau, Barbara – Language Learning and Development, 2021
Perception verbs and mental verbs have significant overlap in their syntax and semantics; both reference mental representations when taking embedded clauses, as in "I see that Maria was here" and "I think that Maria was here." Some have suggested that perception is more accessible for young children than mental states, raising…
Descriptors: Verbs, Semantics, Phrase Structure, Perception
Garcia Macias, Jose Hugo – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study investigates the relationship between three linguistic functions: thetics, miratives and exclamatives. Thetics are an information structure configuration that conveys that the information is new to the addressee. The thetic subtypes selected for this study are the following: existentials (e.g. "There are apples in the…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Language Research, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
Jones, Michael N.; Gruenenfelder, Thomas M.; Recchia, Gabriel – Grantee Submission, 2017
Recent semantic space models learn vector representations for word meanings by observing statistical redundancies across a text corpus. A word's meaning is represented as a point in a high-dimensional semantic space, and semantic similarity between words is quantified by a function of their spatial proximity (typically the cosine of the angle…
Descriptors: Semantics, Computational Linguistics, Spatial Ability, Proximity
Zheni, Thouraya – Arab World English Journal, 2019
The aim of the present paper is examining the mental representations activated by semantic networks in media discourse. It studies the cognitive frames that are mentally constructed and activated about illegal immigrants, in general, and Syrian refugees in particular. Any word class can evoke frames, but to limit the scope of analysis,…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, News Reporting, Refugees, Semantics
Barrs, Myra – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2016
The last chapter of Vygotsky's last book, "Thinking and Speech," is a compressed argument about the construction of consciousness through the internalisation of language. This article comments on Vygotsky's analysis of the "voyage into the interior" undertaken by oral speech as it is internalised and abbreviated into…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition, Oral Language
Puglisi, Diana C. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Definite descriptions have a number of different readings, the most prominent being the referential and attributive readings. On the referential reading, the description "The current President of the USA" is interpreted as "Barack Obama"; read attributively, it is interpreted as "the current President of the USA, whoever…
Descriptors: Definitions, Philosophy, Semantics, Pragmatics
Riemer, Nick – Language Sciences, 2013
A familiar assumption in much linguistic semantics is that meanings are to be identified conceptually as, or as subparts of, the conceptual representations deployed in general cognitive processes. However, this assumption has increasingly come into question as a result of developments in the study of cognition both within and outside linguistics.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Semantics, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory