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Popa, Diana-Nicoleta. "From lexical towards contextualized meaning representation." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019GREAM037.

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Les représentations des mots sont à la base du plupart des systèmes modernes pour le traitement automatique du langage, fournissant des résultats compétitifs. Cependant, d'importantes questions se posent concernant les défis auxquels ils sont confrontés pour faire face aux phénomènes complexes du langage naturel et leur capacité à saisir la variabilité du langage naturel.Pour mieux gérer les phénomènes complexes du langage, de nombreux travaux ont été menées pour affiner les représentations génériques de mots ou pour créer des représentations spécialisées. Bien que cela puisse aider à distingu

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Black, Alison. "Lexical support in discourse comprehension." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328444.

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Ralli, Assimina M. S. "Investigating lexical acquisition patterns : context and cognition." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1999. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10006623/.

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Pires, Caroline de Castro. "Colocações lexicais especializadas de bases nominais no domínio da hemodinâmica : um estudo exploratório na perspectiva da teoria sentido-texto." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/156982.

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O presente estudo tem por objetivo analisar Colocações Lexicais Especializadas (CLEs) da Hemodinâmica que apresentam bases nominais, por meio da Teoria Sentido-Texto. CLEs são colocações (agrupamentos lexicais) típicas de linguagem especializada que contém em sua constituição uma unidade terminológica, que pode ou não ser a base, além de elementos chamados de colocados, que são especificadores ou caracterizadores da base. Colocados são sempre selecionados em função da base. Além disso, outra forte característica das CLEs é o seu caráter semicomposicional ou fortemente composicional. Assim, par

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Williams, Catharine Davenport Edgar. "Facilitation effects in the primed lexical decision task within and across languages." Thesis, [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1987. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12365130.

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Davies, Robert Aye Imanol. "The influence of meaning and language on lexical selection in speech." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391953.

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Almeida, Diogo. "Form, meaning and context in lexical access MEG and behavioral evidence /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/9295.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.<br>Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Linguistics. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Thuns, Antonin. "Word Meanings Out There and Within: Toward a Naturalistic Account." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2020. https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/308163/5/Contrat.pdf.

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The dissertation lays the foundations for a naturalistic account of word meaning capable of addressing the conflicting intuitions that word meanings are both “out there”, world-involving and objective (the “objectivist” intuition) and in the heads of speakers, i.e. cognitive and perspectival (the “mentalist” intuition). The strong naturalization constraint endorsed in this project has it that the sought-after syncretic notion of word meaning must be nonmysterious and constitute a potential object for the natural sciences. The objectivist intuition is discussed within the framework of semantic

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Silberer, Carina Helga. "Learning visually grounded meaning representations." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/14236.

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Humans possess a rich semantic knowledge of words and concepts which captures the perceivable physical properties of their real-world referents and their relations. Encoding this knowledge or some of its aspects is the goal of computational models of semantic representation and has been the subject of considerable research in cognitive science, natural language processing, and related areas. Existing models have placed emphasis on different aspects of meaning, depending ultimately on the task at hand. Typically, such models have been used in tasks addressing the simulation of behavioural pheno

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Tsiamita, Fanie. "Disambiguating meaning : an examination of polysemous words within the framework of lexical priming." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.569456.

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Hoey's theory of Lexical Priming (LP) attempts to provide a theoretical framework to explain the long-established phenomena of collocation (cf. Firth 1957; Sinclair 1991; Stubbs 1996), colligation (cf. Firth 1957; Sinclair 2004, Hunston 2001), and several kinds of semantic relationships (cf. Sinclair 1991, 2004; Hunston 2001; Louw 1993; Partington 2004). The framework generates a number of hypotheses which call for closer examination. One of them concerns the phenomenon of polysemy. According to LP, the collocations, semantic associations and colligations that a polysemous word is characterist

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Yee, Charles Woei-Jye [Verfasser], and Hans [Akademischer Betreuer] Kamp. "A lexical approach to presupposition and meaning / Charles Woei-Jye Yee. Betreuer: Hans Kamp." Stuttgart : Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Stuttgart, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1014961564/34.

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Sinha, Ravi Som. "Finding Meaning in Context Using Graph Algorithms in Mono- and Cross-lingual Settings." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271899/.

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Making computers automatically find the appropriate meaning of words in context is an interesting problem that has proven to be one of the most challenging tasks in natural language processing (NLP). Widespread potential applications of a possible solution to the problem could be envisaged in several NLP tasks such as text simplification, language learning, machine translation, query expansion, information retrieval and text summarization. Ambiguity of words has always been a challenge in these applications, and the traditional endeavor to solve the problem of this ambiguity, namely doing word

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Jager, Bernadet. "Processing lexical ambiguity : the effects of meaning relatedness, word frequency, concreteness, and level of processing." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2012. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=185856.

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This thesis explores the processing of lexical ambiguity: words with several unrelated meanings (homonymy) or many related senses (polysemy). Chapter I provides a literature overview of studies investigating this topic. Chapters 2 and 3 pursue a first goal: to investigate whether effects are influenced by the methodology of defining lexical ambiguity. The results support the hypothesis (Rodd, Gaskell, & Marslen- Wilson, 2002) that studies using questionnaires to define lexical ambiguity (e.g. Rubenstein, Garfield, & Millikan, 1970) found a polysemy advantage rather than a homonymy advantage. Q

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Neff, Kathryn Joan Eggers. "Neural net models of word representation : a connectionist approach to word meaning and lexical relations." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/832999.

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This study examines the use of the neural net paradigm as a modeling tool to represent word meanings. The neural net paradigm, also called "connectionism" and "parallel distributed processing," provides a new metaphor and vocabulary for representing the structure of the mental lexicon. As a research method applied to the componential analysis of word meanings, the neural net approach has one primary advantage over the traditional introspective method: freedom from the investigator's personal biases.The connectionist method is illustrated in this thesis with an extensive examination of the mean

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Summers, Simon. "Lexical meaning and propositional representation : an investigation into the problem of the unity of the proposition." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2012. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/42422/.

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In this thesis, I offer a novel account of how best to reorient our semantic and conceptual inquiries into lexical meaning and propositional representation. I achieve this by means of a partly historical investigation into the problem of the unity of the proposition; this is the problem of distinguishing a proposition - the bearer of truth, the complex object or content of a belief or other propositional attitude, and the meaning of a true/false statement - from an „aggregate‟ of its constituent parts. In chapter 1, I assess Bertrand Russell‟s first attempt at a solution, and give a detailed a

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McGregor, Stephen. "Geometric methods for context sensitive distributional semantics." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2018. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/36691.

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This thesis describes a novel methodology, grounded in the distributional semantic paradigm, for building context sensitive models of word meaning, affording an empirical exploration of the relationship between words and concepts. Anchored in theoretical linguistic insight regarding the contextually specified nature of lexical semantics, the work presented here explores a range of techniques for the selection of subspaces of word co-occurrence dimensions based on a statistical analysis of input terms as observed within large-scale textual corpora. The relationships between word-vectors that em

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Ostashchenko, Ekaterina. "Access to lexical meaning in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Reconsidering the role of socio-pragmatic understanding." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2018. https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/277377/5/Contrat.pdf.

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Let’s imagine a typical word-learning scenario. A toddler sits in her highchair in the kitchen and waits for her lunch. Her mother says: “Use a spoon to eat your meal”. Several objects are placed in front of the child. She can see a dish with her lunch, a spoon, a cup, a sugar bowl, a milk jar, her mother’s plate and a second cup. All these objects, present in the visual array, must be identified by the toddler; she must also parse the auditory stream into segments and determine which words are familiar and which ones are potentially new. If the child does not know the word “spoon”, she will n

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de, Long Shauna P. A. "What Is the Relationship between Learning Spelling and Meaning Incidentally during Reading?" Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1558543156973626.

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Bangerter, Renee. "Since Joseph Smith's Time: Lexical Semantic Shifts in the Book of Mormon." BYU ScholarsArchive, 1998. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4500.

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In the years since Joseph Smith completed the translation of the Book of Mormon, the English language has changed; some common phraseologies and word meanings are dissimilar to today's. Often, in reading the Book of Mormon, we impose our current definitions onto terms that in 1830 had a different meaning. Our interpretation of these words, as well as the passages in which they are found, is skewed by our modern definitions. These words, when they occur in the Book of Mormon, demonstrate dialectal and obsolete senses. In the case of some words, the dialectal or obsolete sense is so far removed

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Kapnoula, Efthymia Evangelia. "Not everything that competes means something: evidence for competition among word-forms in a novel-word learning paradigm." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4660.

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The aim of the present study was to investigate whether learning a meaningless phonological word-form, can affect its ability to compete with other words shortly after it was learned. According to previous experimental work we expected that a semantic referent (Leach & Samuel, 2007), and/or consolidation over a significant amount of time (Gaskell& Dumay, 2003) are necessary for a novel word-form to be able to engage in lateral inhibition with other words. In order to examine this we used the experimental design that was used by Dahan, Magnuson, Tanenhaus and Hogan (2001). Experiment 1 was a re

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Masevičienė, Egidija. "Darybiniai sinonimai leksinių sinonimų eilėse." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2010. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2010~D_20100903_125204-78736.

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Leksiniai sinonimai – skirtingai skambantys, tos pačios ar artimos reikšmės žodžiai, kurie skiriasi semantinėmis, emocinėmis, stilistinėmis ypatybėmis. Darybiniais sinonimais laikomi skirtingų darybos afiksų bendrašakniai dariniai, turintys tapačią arba artimą leksinę ir darybinę reikšmę. Į leksinių sinonimų eiles dažnai įeina ir darybinių sinonimų eilės. Antano Lyberio Sinonimų žodyne (2002) pateiktose leksinių sinonimų eilėse rastas 4471 daiktavardžių, būdvardžių, veiksmažodžių darinys, iš kurių sudarytos 1836 darybinių sinonimų eilės. Bendrašakniai dariniai, kaip ir leksiniai sinonimai, gal

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Ben, Achour Riadh. "De la sémantique textuelle en arabe : cohésion discursive et sens lexical." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LYO20014.

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Le travail présenté ici se situe dans le cadre général d’élaborer une méthodologie de traitement du sens lexical dans une dimension textuelle – textes arabes et énoncés (types et occurrences) plus courts – à la lumière de la sémantique interprétative de F. Rastier. Pour ce faire, cette étude cherche tout d’abord à déterminer le statut du texte en linguistique moderne et dans la pensée traditionnelle arabe. Il s’agit de revenir sur les facteurs-clés qui ont donné lieu à la prise en compte du palier textuel dans les études linguistiques modernes et dans la tradition grammaticale, rhétorique et e

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Півень, Д. В. "Особливості квалітативних змін лексичного значення слова". Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2017. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/51657.

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Лексичне значення – це зміст слова, який відображає у свідомості і закріплює в ньому уявлення про предмет, властивість, процес, явище тощо. Воно є продуктом мисленнєвої діяльності людини і має узагальнений характер.

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Nobrega, Karliane Fernandes. "A interpreta??o sem?ntica dos auxiliares modais poder, precisar e dever: uma abordagem da sem?ntica cognitiva." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2007. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/16359.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:07:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 KarlianeFN.pdf: 2687270 bytes, checksum: 030c127f4ec27d1e8f2d78a1475b9ddf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-06-01<br>Apresentamos, neste trabalho, com base na sem?ntica cognitiva, uma an?lise do significado, em contexto, dos auxiliares modais poder, precisar e dever. Analisamos 120 textos produzidos por candidatos ao vestibular e por alunos do ensino fundamental, como resposta da quest?o n?mero tr?s da prova discursiva de L?ngua Portuguesa do vestibular 2005 da UFRN, que pede aos candidatos para explicitar a diferen?a

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Sörensen, Susanne. "Five English Verbs : A Comparison between Dictionary meanings and Meanings in Corpus collocations." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM), 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-6091.

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In Norstedts Comprehensive English-Swedish Dictionary (2000) it is said that the numbered list of senses under each headword is frequency ordered. Thus, the aim of this study is to see whether this frequency order of senses agrees with the frequencies appearing in the British National Corpus (BNC). Five English, polysemous verbs were studied. For each verb, a simple search in the corpus was carried out, displaying 50 random occurrences. Each collocate was encoded with the most compatible sense from the numbered list of senses in the dictionary. The encoded tokens were compiled and listed in fr

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Adelstein, Andreina. "Unidad léxica y significado especializado: modelo de representación a partir del nombre relacional madre." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7505.

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Esta tesis estudia la especificidad de los significados léxicos especializados, a partir del análisis del funcionamiento de nombres relacionales; ofrece una explicación integrada de la semántica especializada y no especializada y una modelización de entrada léxica unificada. Conjuga así, el modelo comunicativo de la terminología con modelos polisémicos de generación del significado léxico.<br/>El trabajo presenta una revisión crítica de las propuestas lingüísticas y terminológicas acerca de las propiedades semánticas del léxico científico. Luego, analiza las propiedades del significado léxico

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Шкурат, Олена Вікторівна, Елена Викторовна Шкурат, Olena Viktorivna Shkurat, Лариса Іванівна Гарцунова, Лариса Ивановна Гарцунова, and Larysa Ivanivna Hartsunova. "English sense perception verbs: shift of meanings." Thesis, Cognum Publishing House, 2020. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/77417.

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Cтаття присвячена дослідженню лексико-семантичних варіантів дієслів чуттєвого сприйняття "бачити", "чути", "відчувати" і зсуву їх значень.<br>The article in question deals with the investigation of the lexicosemantic variants of the verbs of sense perception to see, to hear, to feel and the shift of their meaning.

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Danks, Warwick. "The Arabic verb : form and meaning in the vowel-lengthening patterns." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/961.

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The research presented in this dissertation adopts an empirical Saussurean structuralist approach to elucidating the true meaning of the verb patterns characterised formally by vowel lengthening in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). The verbal system as a whole is examined in order to place the patterns of interest (III and VI) in context, the complexities of Arabic verbal morphology are explored and the challenges revealed by previous attempts to draw links between form and meaning are presented. An exhaustive dictionary survey is employed to provide quantifiable data to empirically test the large

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Altemark, Mikael. "Lexis, Discourse Prosodies and the Taking of Stance : A Corpus Study of the Meaning of ‘Self-proclaimed’." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-9551.

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This study is concerned with the description of the semantic and pragmatic characteristics of the attributive adjective self-proclaimed, employing corpus-linguistic methodology to explore its meaning from user-based data. The initial query provided the material from which a lexical pro-file of the target word was constructed, systematically describing collocational data, semantic preferences, semantic associations and discourse prosodies. Qualitative analysis of sample con-cordances illustrated the role of the target word in expressing different kinds of meaning-bearing stances. The results de

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Magnusson, Jenny. "Fokus ålder : betydelserelationer och betydelseförändring." Doctoral thesis, Linköping University, Linköping University, Department of Culture and Communication, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-11935.

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<p>The aim of this thesis is to study how words denoting age are used in newspaper texts. I have chosen mainly to study the following Swedish focus words for females and males of different ages (<em>flicka, kvinna, tjej, dam; pojke, man, kille</em> and <em>herre</em>) as they relate to age. Furthermore, age lexemes – different variations of Swedish expressions of age – are investigated and finally also a number of new Swedish expressions that are used to describe age – <em>kids, förtis, grups, tweenie, mappie, senior</em> and what I call “plus gradings” – e.g. 50 +.</p><p>The study is particul

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Вашист, Катерина Миколаївна, Екатерина Николаевна Вашист, and Kateryna Mykolaivna Vashyst. "Linguo-Pragmatic Potential of Brand Names." Thesis, Latvian Language Institute of the University of Latvia, 2018. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/72966.

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Brand names are analyzed as special pragmatic verbal signs which have lexical meanings, as they are characterized by conceptual attribution and lexical modality; the specifics of a brand is to name, to distinguish, and to differentiate objects of the same type. Brands as a component of the advertising discourse function as advertising names and differ from the other varieties of proper names by stylistic marking, as they are focusing on attracting the attention of an addressee. The brands formed by blending word formation method are also studied in the paper. The research has a great influence

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Prasada, Sandeep. "Acquisition of adjective meanings : a lexical semantic approach." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/12886.

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Svensson, Maria Helena. "Critères de figement : L’identification des expressions figées en français contemporain." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Moderna språk, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-335.

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Although there are units larger than the word in language, linguists have not been able to agree on a definition of these units. This study examines a variety of notions, relevant in the study of ”fixed” or ”frozen” expressions in contemporary French. Criteria such as memorization, unique context, non-compositionality, marked syntax, lexical blocking and grammatical blocking are analyzed in detail. A closer look at them reveals that in fact only one of them, lexical blocking, is both necessary and sufficient in the description of a fixed expression. The other criteria are, however, also import

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Silvey, Catriona Anne. "Communicative emergence and cultural evolution of word meanings." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/16462.

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The question of how language evolved has received an increasing amount of attention in recent years. Compared to seemingly more complex phenomena such as syntax, word meanings are usually seen as relatively easy to explain. Mainstream accounts in psycholinguistics and evolutionary linguistics assume that word meanings correspond to stable concepts which are prior to language and derive straightforwardly from human perception of structure in the world. Taking a cognitive linguistic approach based on psycholinguistic evidence, I argue instead that word meanings are conventions, grounded, learned

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Johansson, Falck Marlene. "Technology, Language and Thought : Extensions of Meaning in the English Lexicon." Doctoral thesis, Luleå : Univ. of Technology, 2005. http://epubl.ltu.se/1402-1544/2005/31/.

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Falck, Marlene Johansson. "Technology, language and thought : extensions of meaning in the English lexicon." Doctoral thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-16850.

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In this thesis, the relationship between technological innovation and the development of language and thought is analysed. For this purpose, three different fields of technology are investigated: 1) the steam engine, 2) electricity, and 3) motor vehicles, roads and ways. They have all either played an extremely important part in people’s lives, or they are still essential to us. The overall aim is to find out in what ways these inventions and discoveries have helped people to develop abstract thinking and given speakers of English new possibilities to express themselves. Questions being asked

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Ausensi, Josep. "The Contribution of roots: the division of labor between grammar and the lexicon in meaning composition." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/672996.

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This dissertation explores the division of labor between grammar and the lexicon from the viewpoint of event structural theories which take verb meanings to decompose into event templates and roots. Event templates define the temporal and causal structure of the event, while roots fill in real-world details. On this view, the semantics of the whole syntactic structure and the grammatical properties of the verbs are solely determined by the event templates, and never by roots. In this dissertation, I argue against this strong division of labor by showing that roots play a bigger role in

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Kostina, Irina. "La variación conceptual de los términos en el discurso especializado." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7513.

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Esta tesis describe la variación conceptual en terminología. Entendemos por variación conceptual el proceso cognitivo que conduce a cambios graduales en un concepto y se manifiesta lingüística y semánticamente en grados diferentes de equivalencia entre los sentidos de una unidad léxica o entre los sentidos de sus variantes léxico-semánticas. <br/><br/>Este estudio se basa en los fundamentos de la Teoría Comunicativa de la Terminología (TCT) (Cabré, 1999), en la teoría del término (Averboukh, 2005) y en la teoría de variación léxico-semántica (Karcevski, 1926 en Zviagintsev (ed.), 1965; Kury³ow

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al-Mansoor, Mansoor. "Semantic mapping of the bilingual lexicon : form-to-meaning mapping through computerized testing." Virtual Press, 2004. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1302163.

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In this study, form-to-meaning mapping of the bilingual mental lexicon is investigated. Sixty native speakers of Arabic, divided into intermediate and advanced ESL groups, served as the participants of the study. They performed a semantic relatedness rating task of sixty high frequency semantically related English word pairs on a 6point scale. While thirty word pairs had the same translation (ST) word in Arabic, the other thirty had a different translation (DT) word. Fifteen of the word pairs in each of the two word pair categories were abstract, while the other fifteen were concrete nouns. Th

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Duff, Dawna Margaret. "Lexical semantic richness : effect on reading comprehension and on readers' hypotheses about the meanings of novel words." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1591.

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Purpose: This study investigates one possible reason for individual differences in vocabulary learning from written context. A Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) model is used to motivate the prediction of a causal relationship between semantic knowledge for words in a text and the quality of their hypotheses about the semantics of novel words, an effect mediated by reading comprehension. The purpose of this study was to test this prediction behaviorally, using a within subject repeated measures design to control for other variables affecting semantic word learning. Methods: Participants in 6th gr

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Garcia, Sainz Elvira Alicia. "La interpretación del significado de locuciones verbales en español : Estrategias de aprendientes y hablantes nativos para describir el sentido figurado al Pensar en Voz Alta." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Romanska och klassiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-167331.

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Idioms are frequently used in any language and thereby it is important to investigate how these linguistic resources are understood, acquired and mastered. More studies need to be conducted, specially in the learning of a second language. Cooper (1999) examined the processing of idioms in English by L2 learners using the Think-aloud procedure (TAP). He found that a heuristic model consists of the numerous strategies used by these speakers to find the meaning of written idioms by exploring and try to find the meaning which is less familiar to them, compared to the native speakers knowledge and

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N'goma, Thallian-Farrel. "L'augmentation de capital en situation difficile : le cas des entreprises françaises cotées." Thesis, Brest, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016BRES0046/document.

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L’objet de la présente recherche vise à donner un éclairage théorique, méthodologique et pratique de l’augmentation de capital étudiée dans un contexte de crise. En effet, le cadre conceptuel de cette recherche a porté sur les termes suivants : augmentation de capital, difficulté financière, signaux annonciateurs de la situation difficile, notion d’entreprise en situation difficile et plus particulièrement sur la théorie de signalisation et sur la théorie de la lecture optionnelle du bilan. Il convient d’affirmer que ce cadre théorique a eu pour intérêt de « contextualiser » et de délimiter le

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Rocha, Eleomarques Ferreira. "Exploring Storybook Illustrations in Learning Word Meanings." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/351.

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This study explores storybook illustrations in learning word meanings among English learners in a university intensive language program. The impact of children’s literature on the comprehension and vocabulary development of second language children is well-documented. However, the use of the literature with adults still needs to be researched. Therefore, a mixed-method study was designed (1) to investigate whether readers who read an authentic illustrated story differed from those who read the same story without illustrations; and (2) to learn more about the readers’ process of learning words

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Karpenko, M. V. "The Problems of Translating a Business Correspondence." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2021. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/83686.

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Бізнес-сфера є однією з життєво важливих сфер людської діяльності, а ділові листи та документи залишаються її невід’ємною частиною. Написання чи переклад ділової кореспонденції стосується особливостей лексичної та граматичної структури окремих мов та включає низку труднощів, які потрібно подолати. Оскільки англійська мова загальновизнана як мова ділового спілкування, слід звернути особливу увагу на особливості офіційного стилю, словниковий запас та термінологію, характерні для ділового дискурсу, правила та норми складання та перекладу ділових листів різних типів. Актуальність дослідження стосу

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Acharya, Chandan. "Cooperative Strategy and Sources of Knowledge Integration Capability and Innovation: A Relational View." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc862852/.

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Faced with the challenges to addressing the novelties of the changing business environments (e.g., new customer requirement, changes in customers taste and preferences, the introduction of new products or services by competitors), organizations seek to build collaboration among their employees who possess complementary knowledge. Integrating complementary knowledge enhances employees' ability to address environmental challenges and foster innovation. Despite the importance of knowledge integration for innovation, integration of such knowledge becomes difficult when employees lack a shared un

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Lefrançois, Maxime. "Représentation des connaissances sémantiques lexicales de la Théorie Sens-Texte : conceptualisation, représentation, et opérationnalisation des définitions lexicographiques." Phd thesis, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, 2014. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01071945.

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Nous présentons une recherche en ingénierie des connaissances appliquée aux prédicats linguistiques et aux définitions lexicographiques de la théorie Sens-Texte (TST). Notre méthodologie comporte trois étapes. 1. Nous montrons en quoi la conceptualisation de la TST devrait être étendue pour faciliter sa formalisation. Nous justifions la nécessité de définir un niveau sémantique profond (SemP) à base de graphes. Nous y définissons la notion de type d'unité sémantique profonde et sa structure actancielle, de sorte que leur organisation hiérarchique puisse correspondre à une hiérarchie de sens au

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Van, der Merwe Aletta Sophia. "Emotion structure, emotion meaning and emotion episodes of white Afrikaans–speaking working adults / van der Merwe, A.S." Thesis, North-West University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/7590.

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Emotion research is an important research topic, thus making the measurement of emotion in the workplace crucial. In attempting to study, understand and measure the role of emotions in the human condition, various researchers have identified different theoretical models to manage the information they have gathered and the observations they have made. In order to study or scientifically investigate any human behaviour, it is essential that such behaviour can be measured, if not quantitatively, then at least qualitatively. However, what one finds with regard to emotion research and measurement a

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Янь, С., та S. Yan. "Особенности лексики и её национальный характер в русских народных волшебных сказках : магистерская диссертация". Master's thesis, б. и, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10995/86622.

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Folklore plays an important role in studying social development, socioeconomics, customs and habits. Because language is a special level of vocabulary, studying folklore and language of fairy tale is crucial for understanding social development. Compared with other types of folk literature and art, fairy tales are the most popular and most extensive genre, which contains rich ideas accumulated by people over the centuries. Therefore, folklore and fairy tales are the basis for studying national psychology and personal characteristics.<br>В изучении развития общества, его экономики и обычаев, ва

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VERNICH, LUCA ANTONIO TOMMASO. "CORRELAZIONI TRA SVILUPPO CONCETTUALE NELL'INFANZIA E ACQUISIZIONE DELLA PRIMA LINGUA." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/6170.

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L'obiettivo del presente lavoro è quello di esaminare criticamente le prospettive teoriche più note sul problema delle relazioni tra sviluppo concettuale del bambino ed acquisizione della prima lingua. Per quanto il lavoro si concentri in particolare sullo sviluppo della componente lessicale, ovvero sul legame tra concetti e apprendimento delle parole con cui gli stessi vengono codificati, verranno necessariamente trattati anche alcuni aspetti relativi alla competenza morfologica e sintattica. Dopo aver presentato sinteticamente le principali teorie proposte nell'ambito della linguistica acqui

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VERNICH, LUCA ANTONIO TOMMASO. "CORRELAZIONI TRA SVILUPPO CONCETTUALE NELL'INFANZIA E ACQUISIZIONE DELLA PRIMA LINGUA." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/6170.

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L'obiettivo del presente lavoro è quello di esaminare criticamente le prospettive teoriche più note sul problema delle relazioni tra sviluppo concettuale del bambino ed acquisizione della prima lingua. Per quanto il lavoro si concentri in particolare sullo sviluppo della componente lessicale, ovvero sul legame tra concetti e apprendimento delle parole con cui gli stessi vengono codificati, verranno necessariamente trattati anche alcuni aspetti relativi alla competenza morfologica e sintattica. Dopo aver presentato sinteticamente le principali teorie proposte nell'ambito della linguistica acqui

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