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Journal articles on the topic "Mental language semantics"
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Kassym, B. K., and S. N. Samenova. "Frame structure of mental vocabulary of the Kazakh language." Bulletin of the Karaganda university Philology series 1, no. 109 (2023): 46–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.31489/2023ph1/46-53.
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The frame structure of the mental vocabulary in the Kazakh language is considered in this article by comparing the lexical-semantic groups of verbs in the Kazakh and other Turkic languages. Their semantic field is analyzed based on semantic, functional, emotional and expressive features of verbs in the Kazakh language. When defining thematic groups, particularly, verbs that nominate the spheres of mentality, the authors use as a basis the main features, meanings and functions in the context, as well as the functional characteristics of each word. Particular emphasis is placed on the fact that the main feature of the verb is clearly seen in its semantics. The authors classify the verbs of the Kazakh language into eight groups depending on the features of the semantic field. Taking into account the issue of the complexity of verbal semantics in linguistics, it is concluded that the classification of the meanings of mental verbs is very difficult; the definition of its essence and grouping according to their semantics is also a complex linguistic phenomenon, therefore the proposed classification may be conditional and cannot completely solve the problem of classification of mental verbs.
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Ramin, Golshaie. "BRAIN Journal - Representing Mental Spaces and Dynamics of Natural Language Semantics." BRAIN. Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience 2, no. 1 (2011): 44–58. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1041367.
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ABSTRACT Building systems with the robustness of human reasoning capabilities requires inspirations from cognitive science. The primary objective of this study is to investigate the possibility of representing some basic principles of cognitive semantics’ Mental Spaces Theory such as domain construction, reality status of domains and their elements, and mental attitudes in a knowledge representation framework for the purpose of developing cognitively plausible knowledge representation systems. The model used as the basis of representation is the extended version of conventional semantic networks, namely Multi-Layered Extended Semantic Networks (MultiNet). The data used in this study have been selected from English expressions and have been represented in MWR, MultiNet’s knowledge representation software. Results obtained from analysis of represented data and their comparison to principles of mental spaces theory shows that theoretical constructs of mental spaces theory such as domain construction, reality status of domains and their elements, and mental attitudes can be formally represented in the MultiNet framework.
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Ziyoyeva, Dilnoza Anvarovna. "SEMANTICS OF THE SPEECH VERBS SPEAK, TALK IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE." Innovative Development in Educational Activities 2, no. 6 (2023): 217–25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7785184.
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<em>Semantics </em><em>the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. The two main areas are logical semantics, concerned with matters such as sense and reference and presupposition and implication, and lexical semantics, concerned with the analysis of word meanings and relations between them. Semantics is </em><em>the study of the meaning of words and sentences. It uses the relations of linguistic forms to non-linguistic concepts and mental representations to explain how sentences are understood by native speakers. </em><em>This article devoted to the classification of the speech verbs and semantic characteristics of the verbs speak, talk in the English language.</em>
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Kostryba, Olha V. "COGNITIVE SEMANTICS OF NOUNS IN DENUMERATIVE WORD FORMATION (BASED ON UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE)." Alfred Nobel University Journal of Philology 1, no. 29 (2025): 328–48. https://doi.org/10.32342/3041-217x-2025-1-29-19.
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Revival of interest in the linguistic-cognitive interpretation of the deep level of language, as a means of facilitating the computerization of the semantic continuum of derived words, is driven by the schemati- zation of both implicit and explicit data concerning these words. The mental interpretation of word-forma- tive semantics, framed by the word-formative nest as a structured framework of knowledge, underscores the significance of this scientific inquiry. The goal of the work is to model natural language through the propositional semantics of derived words, which are expressions of semantic positions established according to the onomasiological criteri- on. The cognitive analysis of word-formation semantics is conducted using denumerative nouns, which are organized by the nesting principle into sixteen complex, system-forming units, each characterized by nu- merative vertices. The goal involves solving the following tasks: 1) to represent the semantic positions of derived nouns through the prism of frame organization; 2) to identify the cognitive structure of verbalized slots within subframes; 3) to establish the semantic content of propositional structures. In order to achieve the goal, the method of frame propositional-semantic modeling was applied in combination with the tool of interlevel interpretation. In the aspect of linguo-cognitology, word-forming nests are interpreted as structures organized with- in frames, which are used to verbalise the elements of the concept “QUANTITY”. Emphasis has shifted from analyzing the frame itself towards establishing the mental dimension of word-forming meaning, in accor- dance with the hirerarchy of frames. To mitigate mental-verbal dissonance, a verbalized slot within the frame structure of the word-form- ing nest has been established. This slot functions analogously to the “motivational sema” in motivation- al process. The propositional structure of nouns under investigation, which have a simple motivational base, is conceptualized as tripartite, consisting of “actant 1 – predicate – actant 2”. The right-sided propagator is designated as both primary and secondary based on the nonderivative's capacity to motivate the deriva- tive. Additionally, the linguistic affiliation of the motivator is also determined. For the first time, this study introduces a typology of specific derivative propositions, categorized according to the inherent situation- ality in derivative semantics. The propositional-semantic approach of the frame enables the identification of the disparity be- tween the semantics of the deep level (syntactic increments at the proposition level) and its surface layer with the lexical meaning and its mental modeling (semantic increments). As a result of investigation, frames are differentiated by the nature of heterogeneity in terms of their abil- ity to combine frame structures. It was found that the word-forming meanings of the analyzed nouns are char- acterized by the predominance of nouns of numerative and adjectival origin, based on the categorical feature. The cognitive content of the verbalized slots is represented by common and distinct (unique) topics. The unique cognitive theme of verbalized slots prevails, in particular, it refers to unique secondary mental themes within subframes with the indirect derivation of derived knowledge from the base, represented by a frame with quantitative-numerical notation. Therefore, the result of the study are modeled schemes of the semantics of numerical derivatives, which serve as a basis for their digitization, which will contribute to the improvement of machine transla- tion using the Ukrainian language, because situational implicite meanings often do not lend to verbaliza- tion due to the lacunarity of information data in the computer databases. The prospects of the research involve the cognitive structuring through the prism of semantic posi- tions of multilingual derivatives in numeral word formation and units motivated by other peripheral and core classes of derivates, at the word-formational level in the Ukrainian language. Additionally, it encom- passes the derivational systems of languages worldwide, excluding isolating ones.
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Shliakhova, Galina I. "Lexico-semantic sphere of mentality in poetic texts of Igor-Severyanin." Vestnik slavianskikh kul’tur [Bulletin of Slavic Cultures] 63 (2022): 208–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2022-63-208-220.
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The paper highlights the development of mental semantics in polysemic words in Igor Severyanin`s poetry. The vocabulary of the mental sphere is studied by Russian and foreign scientists, specialists in the field of semantics and related disciplines, since it is through its use that the worldview of nations and their representatives, native speakers, is reflected in language. Frequent use of a word’s figurative mental meaning in language makes such a lexico-semantic variant (LSV) commonplace, and leads to the fixation of this new seme in the explanatory dictionary. However, fictional (especially poetic) speech is characterized by greater variability of meanings. Via the author's word use in poems, words that do not have a common mental meaning develop a new semantics existing in a specific context. Severyanin is a poet who assigns an important place to the mental sphere vocabulary in his works, which makes them quite illustrative. Some words that do not have a mental seme according to their dictionary meanings acquire it in context and turn out to be the author's means of artistic expression and semantic neologisms. In a number of other cases, the opposite phenomenon is observed: in the context lexemes lose their usual mental meaning.
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Ivanova, Maria V., and Galina I. Shliakhova. "Intersection of the lexical-semantic fields “Mentality” and “Physiology” in the poetic language of Igor-Severyanin." Russian Language Studies 22, no. 1 (2024): 73–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2618-8163-2024-22-1-73-90.
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The intersection of two lexical-semantic fields “mentality” and “physiology” in the poetic texts of Igor-Severyanin is studied. The relevance of the research is determined by the fact that within the framework of modern anthropocentric approach and increased attention to the mental sphere lexical semantics is investigated, lexical-semantic fields, their intersections, semantic shifts are considered, actual problems of linguistic poetics are touched upon. The aim of the work is to explore the intersection of lexical-semantic fields “mentality” and “physiology” in the language of Severyanin's poems. The material includes lexemes of the mental sphere from Igor-Severyanin's poetic texts. While determining the usual meaning of these lexemes, the authors used the materials of “Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language” by S.I. Ozhegov. The methods of description, comparison, contrast, lexical-semantic and contextual analysis, and continuous sampling were applied; the lexical-semantic field - a generally accepted form of representing lexical units by their meaning - was used to structure the vocabulary. The intersections of the lexical-semantic fields “mentality” and “physiology” in Igor-Severyanin's texts, revealed in the research, are primarily due to the inseparable connection between the inner world of man and his bodily organs of sense. The language fixes stable expressions indicating the possibility of comprehending the human consciousness through analyzing the signals of his body. Words used to denote phenomena and processes related to the body, health, gestures, etc., are reinterpreted in poetic language and receive new semantics, which allows to refer these new lexical-semantic units to the lexical-semantic field of mentality. In Igor-Severyanin's poems the inner world of the lyrical subject dominates, which is reflected in the author's word usage. Even words and expressions with the semantics of physiology shift in their meanings, acquiring the semantics of mentality, at the same time thoughts and feelings are endowed with the author's positive evaluation. The prospects of the research are connected primarily with further study of the mental sphere in the Russian linguistic lexical-semantic system, its dynamics, as well as with the analysis of semantic shifts in the poetic language vocabulary.
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O. Anokhina, Tetiana, Olena M. Mashkina, Khrystyna B. Melko, Yuliia I. Poznikhirenko, and Natalia O. Teslenko. "Peripheral Semantics of the Word as a Marker of the National Picture of the World." Asian Journal of University Education 17, no. 1 (2021): 145. http://dx.doi.org/10.24191/ajue.v17i1.12692.
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Previous studies emphasized that there is a close connection between speech and thinking. The paper analyses the peripheral semantics of the German language's active vocabulary units to define how they represent the features of the national, linguistic picture of the world, namely, the mental traits of the German ethnos. Semantic methods and the extrapolation methods of typical secondary values on non-nonmental characteristics are used mainly; the comparative method was partially used. The contextual method was used as an auxiliary method for illustrating common ethical, aesthetic, and pragmatic guidelines (presuppositions) and stereotypes. The paper carried out: a) semantic analysis of peripheral lexical-semantic variants of arbitrarily and expediently selected notional parts of speech; b) comparison of peripheral semantics of similar words of German and Russian languages against the background of the Russian language; c) clarification of ethnoculturological connotation of individual Germanisms found in the Russian language. The article proves that peripheral semantics in its lexico-semantic, semasiological, and lexicographical understanding expresses key symptom complexes of German mentality, which can be expressed by concepts order, accuracy, family, wealth, quality, practicism and etc. It is found that the German linguistic picture of the world in comparison with the Russian one the material is marked by the minimalism of estimated values, practical orientation and is alluded to bookish style.
 
 Keywords: Additional denotative meanings, Linguoculturology, Semantics, Stereotypes, Symptomatic complexes of mentality
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Mosina, Natalya M. "Verbs of Thinking Activity in Erzya and Finnish Languages: Semantic Aspect." Finno-Ugric world 16, no. 2 (2024): 146–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.15507/2076-2577.016.2024.02.146-155.
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Introduction. The study of the semantics of verbal units that convey relations of mental perception in the Erzya and Finnish languages is due to the need for a comparative study of this group of verbs to identify general and specific features inherent in these languages. Despite the numerous publications on this issue based on the material of various languages, there are practically no comparative works on this issue in Finno-Ugric studies and Mordovian linguistics, which explains the relevance and novelty of the analysis of verbal units containing the semantic component “mental perception”. The purpose of the study is to analyze and compare the most frequent verbs reflecting mental processes in distantly related languages. Materials and Methods. The research material was illustrative examples in the Erzya and Finnish languages, obtained as a result of a continuous and partial sample from texts of various genre and functional styles, including from print media, scientific and educational publications, various dialect and folklore texts included in the linguistic corpus of the Kielipankki Language Bank with the Korp server and MokshEr. In the course of the research, methods of semasiological, comparative, component, descriptive and contextual analysis were used. Results and Discussion. As a result of the research, the concepts of “thinking” and “mental perception” are described, a semantic analysis of their explication at the lexical level is carried out, namely, the most frequent verbal lexemes with the semantics of mental activity based on the material of related languages are identified. The author identifies lexical and semantic groups, which include the verbs of the Erzya and Finnish languages with common semantics “thinking”, “mind”, “thought”, as well as verbal units with positive and neutral connotations. Conclusion. The conclusions made by the author contribute to the study of a group of sensory-moral and mental verbs that make up a significant layer of the vocabulary of the Finnish and Erzya languages, as well as to the development of the lexicology of the studied related languages.
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Blinova, Svetlana A. "Classification of interpersonal interaction verbs with semantics of mental influence." Verhnevolzhski Philological Bulletin 2, no. 25 (2021): 180–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.20323/2499-9679-2021-2-25-180-186.
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The purpose of this article is to describe the verbs of interpersonal interaction with the semantics of mental influence in the English language and to consider the criteria for semantic classification, on the basis of which the selected verbs can be grouped. There is a large number of works devoted to the study of lexico-semantic, pragmatic, morphological and other features of individual subgroups of interpersonal interaction verbs (in particular, compulsion verbs, verbs of speech influence, etc.), however, no attempt has yet been made to identify, study and classify a group of interpersonal interaction verbs with the semantics of mental influence. The material of the study is dictionary definitions from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English and Longman Dictionary of English Language and Culture, as well as examples from the National British Corpus. The study describes in detail the procedure for selecting verbs of interpersonal interaction with the semantics of mental influence, identifies the features that are integral for this group of verbs, as well as the criteria for semantic classification, on the basis of which the selected verbs were divided into subgroups. Verbs of mental influence have a complex semantic structure. The signs «interpersonal interaction» and «impact on the object» are integral for the studied group of verbs. The sign of intentionality is not integral, but it is included in the semantic structure of most verbs of this group. In addition, the semantic structure of verbs of mental effects shows thatthe classification of verbs in this group may be an indication of the impact on a particular area of the psyche which indicates the correlation of the meanings of mental influence verbs with the findings of modern psychological theory
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Zhumakeeva, Elmira, and Cholpon Talkanova. "THE FUNCTIONAL AND SEMANTIC CONTRAST OF DISAPPROVAL AND DISCONTENT EXPLICATIONS IN ENGLISH AND KYRGYZ COLLOQUIAL SPEECH." Alatoo Academic Studies 2022, no. 1 (2022): 202–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.17015/aas.2022.221.25.
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The article describes a functional-semantic contrast between the expressions of disapproval and discontent in English and Kyrgyz’s colloquial speech. The aims are to identify the similarities and differences between the studied phenomena in both compared languages, as well as to identify such moments that would remain unnoticed when studying the system of only one language. It was found that the speech acts of disapproval as a higher degree of negative-evaluation semantics is realized through the main parts of the functional and semantic field (FSF) - the core and center of the field; while the speech act of discontent as a lower degree of negative-evaluation semantics is realized only through the peripheral parts of the FSF - the near and far periphery of the field.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Mental language semantics"
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Winarni, Indah. "Verbal, mental and behavioural processes in Indonesian." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1985. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/26865.
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With the development of Indonesian as a national as well as official language, research on various aspects of the language has been conducted. However, many of the studies are concerned only with phonological and morphological aspects of the language. There is a real need for more work on the semantic-syntactic aspects of the language.
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Andersson, Karin. "'Consider' and its Swedish equivalents in relation to machine translation." Thesis, University of Skövde, School of Humanities and Informatics, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-771.
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<p>This study describes the English verb ’consider’ and the characteristics of some of its senses. An investigation of this kind may be useful, since a machine translation program, SYSTRAN, has invariably translated ’consider’ with the Swedish verbs ’betrakta’ (Eng: ’view’, regard’) and ’anse’ (Eng: ’regard’). This handling of ’consider’ is not satisfactory in all contexts.</p><p>Since ’consider’ is a cogitative verb, it is fascinating to observe that both the theory of semantic primes and universals and conceptual semantics are concerned with cogitation in various ways. Anna Wierzbicka, who is one of the advocates of semantic primes and universals, argues that THINK should be considered as a semantic prime. Moreover, one of the prime issues of conceptual semantics is to describe how thoughts are constructed by virtue of e.g. linguistic components, perception and experience.</p><p>In order to define and clarify the distinctions between the different senses, we have taken advantage of the theory of mental spaces.</p><p>This thesis has been structured in accordance with the meanings that have been indicated in WordNet as to ’consider’. As a consequence, the senses that ’consider’ represents have been organized to form the subsequent groups: ’Observation’, ’Opinion’ together with its sub-group ’Likelihood’ and ’Cogitation’ followed by its sub-group ’Attention/Consideration’.</p><p>A concordance tool, http://www.nla.se/culler, provided us with 90 literary quotations that were collected in a corpus. Afterwards, these citations were distributed between the groups mentioned above and translated into Swedish by SYSTRAN.</p><p>Furthermore, the meanings as to ’consider’ have also been related to the senses, recorded by the FrameNet scholars. Here, ’consider’ is regarded as a verb of ’Cogitation’ and ’Categorization’.</p><p>When this study was accomplished, it could be inferred that certain senses are connected to specific syntactic constructions. In other cases, however, the distinctions between various meanings can only be explained by virtue of semantics.</p><p>To conclude, it appears to be likely that an implementation is facilitated if a specific syntactic construction can be tied to a particular sense. This may be the case concerning some meanings of ’consider’. Machine translation is presumably a much more laborious task, if one is solely governed by semantic conditions.</p>
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Xia, Violet. "Conceptual organisation of the Chinese-English bilingual mental lexicon: investigations of cross-language priming." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/11623.
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The majority of research on the organisation of bilinguals’ lexical memory has focused on alphabetic languages with shared etymological roots and scripts. Theories based on such evidence may not generalise to noncognate languages with different scripts, such as Chinese and English. This thesis reports a systematic series of experiments designed to investigate the organisation of lexical and conceptual knowledge for bilinguals’ first (L1) and second (L2) language in late L1-dominant Chinese-English bilinguals using the classical cross-language priming paradigm. It aims to investigate how such bilinguals store the meanings of Chinese and English words. It also aims to identify the similarities and discrepancies in the conceptual organisation between noncognate languages with different scripts, i.e., Chinese and English, and to investigate how the lexical representations of a bilingual’s two languages interact with each other and with the conceptual representation. The introductory chapter reviews early theoretical formulations of bilingualism, and evaluates more recent models of bilingual memory. The empirical chapters present three series comprising eight experiments which directly compared cross-language translation priming and semantic priming in both L1-L2 and L2-L1 language directions under conditions designed to tap automatic semantic processes using the same relatively short stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) of 200 ms but different priming paradigms and task contexts. Series 1 (Experiments 1A and 1B) compared repetition/translation priming and semantic priming within and between languages for various semantic relations using an unmasked priming paradigm in lexical decision and word naming tasks. Both tasks produced similar patterns of unmasked translation priming in both L1-L2 and L2-L1 directions, although the priming effects in naming were of a smaller magnitude. Both tasks also showed significant unmasked semantic priming effects for English word targets in the L1-L2 and L2-L2 conditions, but there was little evidence of semantic priming for L1 word targets in the L1-L1 and L2-L1 conditions. Neither task yielded any semantic priming in the within-language L1-L1 condition. Series 2 (Experiments 2A, 2B and 3A, 3B) reported two pairs of semantic categorisation and lexical decision tasks designed to test the predictions of the Sense Model (Finkbeiner, Forster, Nicol, & Nakamura, 2004). The experiments replicated Finkbeiner et al.’s finding that L2-L1 priming is somewhat stronger in semantic categorisation than lexical decision, selectively for category exemplars. However, the direct comparison of L1-L2 and L2-L1 translation priming failed to confirm the Sense Model’s central prediction that translation priming asymmetry is significantly reduced in semantic categorisation. The findings therefore did not support the category filtering account of translation priming asymmetry proposed by the Sense Model but were consistent with semantic feedback (e.g., Hoshino, Midgley, Holcomb, & Grainger, 2010; Midgley, Holcomb, & Grainger, 2009) accounts of cross-script L2-L1 translation priming and suggested that pre-activation of relevant semantic features by a category cue compensates for the weak connections between L2 lexical forms and their conceptual referents. Series 3 (Experiments 4A and 4B) directly compared masked translation and cross-language semantic priming for moderately semantically related pairs with no associative relationships, in semantic categorisation and lexical decision tasks. Both tasks showed similar asymmetrical patterns of masked translation and cross-language semantic priming, characterised by larger priming effects from L1 to L2 than from the reverse. The masked translation priming data fully replicated the findings obtained in Series 2. Masked semantic priming was significant in the L1-L2 but not in the L2-L1 direction, and of smaller magnitude than masked translation priming in both directions. Neither experiment found masked L2-L1 semantic priming. These data can be accommodated by a modified version of the Revised Hierarchical Model (RHM, Kroll & Stewart, 1994) based on Duyck and Brysbaert’s (2004) proposal for alphabetic languages in combination with the semantic feedback account. The data are also consistent with the DevLex-II model (Li & Zhao, 2013; Li, Zhao, & MacWhinney, 2007; Zhao & Li, 2010, 2013) regarding the graded relationships between translation and cross-language semantic priming. The findings of this research clearly demonstrated both shared and independent aspects of L1 and L2 semantic representations in unbalanced Chinese-English bilinguals. They are compatible with the cognitive architecture of the RHM combined with the representational assumptions of the Distributed Conceptual Feature Model (De Groot, 1992a, 1992b, 1995; Van Hell & De Groot, 1998).
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Armstrong, Anna-Marie. "Unconscious processing at the subjective threshold : semantic comprehension?" Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/51557/.
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Our thoughts and behaviours can sometimes be influenced by stimuli that we are not consciously aware of having seen. For example, the presentation of a word that is blocked from entering conscious visual perception through masking can subsequently influence the cognitive processing of a further target word. However, the idea that unconscious cognition is sophisticated enough to process the semantic meaning of subliminal stimuli is controversial. This thesis attempts to explore the extent of subliminal priming. Empirical research centering on subjective methods of measuring conscious knowledge is presented in a series of three articles. The first article investigates the subliminal priming of negation. A series of experiments demonstrates that unconscious processing can accurately discriminate between two nouns beyond chance performance when subliminally instructed to either pick or not pick a given noun. This article demonstrates not only semantic processing of the instructional word, but also unconscious cognitive control by following a two-word subliminal instruction to not choose the primed noun. The second article investigates subliminal priming of active versus passive verb voice by presenting a prime sentence denoting one of two characters as either active or passive and asking which of two pictorial representations best matches the prime. The series of experiments demonstrates that overall, participants were able to identify the correct image for both active and passive conditions beyond chance expectations. This article suggests that individuals are able to process the meaning of word combinations that they are not aware of seeing. The third article attempts to determine whether subliminal processing is sophisticated enough to allow for the activation of specific anxieties relating to relationships. Whilst the findings reveal a small subliminal priming effect on generalised anxiety, the evidence regarding the subliminal priming of very specific anxieties is insensitive. The unconscious is shown in these experiments to be more powerful than previously supposed in terms of the fine grained processing of the semantics of word combinations, though not yet in terms of the fine grained resolution of emotional priming.
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Winder, Deidre. "Pragmatic conversational skills of children identified as emotionally disturbed." PDXScholar, 1990. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4283.
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Communication refers to the conveyance of intended messages so that the listeners' attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors are changed. Communication through a language system may be thought of as the integration of the three components of content (semantics), form (syntax), and use (language in context or pragmatics). The corning together of content, form, and use in signs, words, phrases, and discourse is the essence of language development. The synergism of content/form/use makes up language competence, or knowledge. When children speak and understand a message, they have a plan that is knowledge of language and they use that plan for the behavior involved in speaking or understanding messages, (Bates, 1976; Bloom and Lahey, 1978).
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Lima, Maria Conceição Alves de [UNESP]. "Produção textual e ensino: os aspectos lógico-semântico-cognitivos da linguagem e o desempenho discursivo escolar." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/102470.
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lima_mca_dr_assis.pdf: 794653 bytes, checksum: 7c5b7f420ea29acacef316c2a5b5fd14 (MD5)<br>A partir do pressuposto de que a habilidade de produção textual envolve necessariamente um tripé, constituído pela dimensão lingüística ou gramatical, dimensão interativa e dimensão ideativa da linguagem (dimensão esta que se alarga à medida que o indivíduo avança em escolaridade), este trabalho tem por objetivo caracterizar o desempenho discursivo de alunos do terceiro grau, através da análise de suas produções escritas, concluindo que o fracasso escolar da aprendizagem da produção de textos pode estar ligado basicamente à omissão ou à falência do ensino sistematizado da dimensão ideativa (aqui representada pelos aspectos lógico-semântico-cognitivos da linguagem). Da mesma forma, coloca também em evidência a premente necessidade de que o processo escolar de ensino-aprendizagem da produção de texto como um todo (e da sua dimensão ideativa em particular) seja efetivado dentro do enfoque sócio-histórico, articulando-se a perspectiva enunciativa bakhtiniana com os construtos vygotskianos, sob a égide de uma efetiva mediação docente, centrada na pedagogia dos projetos e na conseqüente intertransdisciplinaridade, de modo a permitir ao educando construir, dialógica e dialeticamente, não somente o seu conhecimento de mundo, mas, principalmente, a sua consciência crítica (os seus valores) e a sua forma de atuar no mundo (as suas atitudes).<br>On starting from the assumption that textual production abilities must necessarily involve a three-legged language support that are linguistic or grammatical dimension, interactive dimension and mental one (such a dimension that enlarges itself proportionately people increment their school time) this research define his goals on characterizing students textual performance by analyzing their wrote productions. As a conclusion, we have found that failure of school textual production learning is due to the omission or failure of a systematic mental dimension language teaching. In the same way, it puts in evidence that full textual production teaching-learning process (and mental dimension in particular) be done in according to historical-social theories, by connecting the bakhtinian enunciatively perspective with vygotskian theoretical constructs, both perspectives realized under effective docent intermediations focused in Project Methodology and in its derivate intertransdisciplinarity principles in order to allowing students to achieve, in a dialogical and dialectical way, not only their knowledge but also their critical conscience and their proper manner of acting in life.
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Gan, Gabriela, Christian Büchel, and Frédéric Isel. "Effect of language task demands on the neural response during lexical access: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-127023.
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This study examined the effects of linguistic task demands on the neuroanatomical localization of the neural response related to automatic semantic processing of concrete German nouns combining the associative priming paradigm with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). To clarify the functional role of the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) for semantic processing with respect to semantic decision making compared to semantic processing per se, we used a linguistic task that involved either a binary decision process (i.e., semantic categorization; Experiment 1) or not (i.e., silently thinking about a word's meaning; Experiment 2). We observed associative priming effects indicated as neural suppression in bilateral superior temporal gyri (STG), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), occipito-temporal brain areas, and in medial frontal brain areas independently of the linguistic task. Inferior parietal brain areas were more active for silently thinking about a word's meaning compared to semantic categorization. A conjunction analysis of linguistic task revealed that both tasks activated the same left-lateralized occipito-temporo-frontal network including the IFG. Contrasting neural associative priming effects across linguistic task demands, we found a significant interaction in the right IFG. The present fMRI data give rise to the assumption that activation of the left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG) in the semantic domain might be important for semantic processing in general and not only for semantic decision making. These findings contrast with a recent study regarding the role of the LIFG for binary decision making in the lexical domain (Wright et al. 2011).
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Hagström, Anne-Christine. "Un miroir aux alouettes ? : Stratégies pour la traduction des métaphores." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Romance Languages, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-2629.
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<p>This dissertation has three goals : to establish an inventory of translation strategies applicable to the translation of metaphor, to investigate how the application of these strategies affects the balance in metaphorical quality between source text and target text, and, finally, to determine whether this balance is a useful indicator of the direction of the translation as a whole, towards either <i>adequacy</i> or <i>acceptability</i>.</p><p>To carry out this research the author has established a corpus comprising 250 metaphors from the novel <i>La goutte d’or</i> by Michel Tournier and its Swedish translation, <i>Gulddroppen</i> by C.G. Bjurström. Based on the criteria <i>thematical and contextual connection</i> 158 metaphors from this corpus have been selected for analysis.The strategy used in the translation of each metaphor has been established. The degree of balance in metaphorical quality between the two texts has then been determined and its significance as an indicator of the direction of the translation as a whole has been discussed.</p><p>The underlying theory and methodology of the study are those of Gideon Toury as outlined in his book <i>Descriptive Translation Studies and beyond</i>. The study is thus essentially descriptive in nature.</p><p>The dissertation is divided into two parts. The first part gives a survey of well known research within the fields of metaphor theory and translation theory. Various theories concerning the requested equality between a text and its translation are presented, as well as inventories of translation strategies established by a number of researchers. The second part contains the analysis of the selected metaphors and establishes a set of strategies for this purpose.</p>
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Lima, Maria Conceição Alves de. "Produção textual e ensino : os aspectos lógico-semântico-cognitivos da linguagem e o desempenho discursivo escolar /." Assis : [s.n.], 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/102470.
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Orientador: Jeane Mari Sant'Ana Spera<br>Banca: Elvira Lopes do Nascimento<br>Banca: Maria José de Toledo Gomes<br>Banca: Odilon Helou Fleury Curado<br>Banca: Rony Farto Pereira<br>Resumo: A partir do pressuposto de que a habilidade de produção textual envolve necessariamente um tripé, constituído pela dimensão lingüística ou gramatical, dimensão interativa e dimensão ideativa da linguagem (dimensão esta que se alarga à medida que o indivíduo avança em escolaridade), este trabalho tem por objetivo caracterizar o desempenho discursivo de alunos do terceiro grau, através da análise de suas produções escritas, concluindo que o fracasso escolar da aprendizagem da produção de textos pode estar ligado basicamente à omissão ou à falência do ensino sistematizado da dimensão ideativa (aqui representada pelos aspectos lógico-semântico-cognitivos da linguagem). Da mesma forma, coloca também em evidência a premente necessidade de que o processo escolar de ensino-aprendizagem da produção de texto como um todo (e da sua dimensão ideativa em particular) seja efetivado dentro do enfoque sócio-histórico, articulando-se a perspectiva enunciativa bakhtiniana com os construtos vygotskianos, sob a égide de uma efetiva mediação docente, centrada na pedagogia dos projetos e na conseqüente intertransdisciplinaridade, de modo a permitir ao educando construir, dialógica e dialeticamente, não somente o seu conhecimento de mundo, mas, principalmente, a sua consciência crítica (os seus valores) e a sua forma de atuar no mundo (as suas atitudes).<br>Abstract: On starting from the assumption that textual production abilities must necessarily involve a three-legged language support that are linguistic or grammatical dimension, interactive dimension and mental one (such a dimension that enlarges itself proportionately people increment their school time) this research define his goals on characterizing students textual performance by analyzing their wrote productions. As a conclusion, we have found that failure of school textual production learning is due to the omission or failure of a systematic mental dimension language teaching. In the same way, it puts in evidence that full textual production teaching-learning process (and mental dimension in particular) be done in according to historical-social theories, by connecting the bakhtinian enunciatively perspective with vygotskian theoretical constructs, both perspectives realized under effective docent intermediations focused in Project Methodology and in its derivate intertransdisciplinarity principles in order to allowing students to achieve, in a dialogical and dialectical way, not only their knowledge but also their critical conscience and their proper manner of acting in life.<br>Doutor
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Chambreuil, Michel. "Structures et processus de l'activite langagiere : aspects formels." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987CLF2E399.
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Dans le contexte actuel des multiplicites d'analyse du traitement de la langue naturelle, les auteurs se sont interesses aux "entites" mises en jeu par differentes theories dans les "processus" et dans les "structures" qu'elles associent au traitement d'expressions langagieres. Les theories abordees ont ete choisies dans trois des courants actuellement dominants et issus respectivement: de la linguistique (n. Chomsky), de la logique (r. Montague), de l'intelligence artificielle (t. Winograd)
Books on the topic "Mental language semantics"
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1952-, Zelinsky-Wibbelt Cornelia, ed. The Semantics of prepositions: From mental processing to natural language processing. Mouton de Gruyter, 1993.
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Niquet, Gilberte. Structurer sa pensée, structurer sa phrase: Techniques d'expression orale et écrite. Hachette, 1987.
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Zelinsky-Wibbelt, Cornelia. Discourse and the continuity of reference: Representing mental categorization. Mouton de Gruyter, 2000.
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Fortuna, Sara. A un secondo sguardo: Il mobile confine tra percezione e linguaggio. Manifestolibri, 2002.
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R, Gleitman Lila, and Landau Barbara 1949-, eds. The acquisition of the lexicon. MIT Press, 1994.
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Gröger, Andreas. Mittelenglische 'mentale" Verben: Eine semantische Beschreibung des Wortfeldes der Verben zum Ausdruck mentaler Prozesse und Zustände im Mittelenglischen, auf der Basis der Helsinki Corpus und einschlägiger Wörterbücher. Logos, 2001.
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Sokolova, Elena. Onomastic space of monuments of writing of Kievan Rus. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1869553.
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The monograph is devoted to the problem of recreating the linguistic-ethnic unity of the Old Russian anthroponymic and toponymic systems, the discovery of direct connections between the proper name and mental landmarks.
 The monograph provides a comprehensive description of the onomasticon of ancient Russian monuments of writing in line with comparative historical linguistics, taking into account the encyclopedic, ethnolinguistic and etymological characteristics of proper names. The system and structure of the onomastic space of monuments of ecclesiastical and secular content of the XI-XIII centuries are investigated, conceptual approaches to their description are proposed. The study of the functions of proper names, their morphemics and semantics allowed us to establish the national and cultural specifics of the Old Russian onomastic vocabulary, to determine the prospects for its evolution, as well as the formation of the modern Russian anthroponymic system.
 Modeling of the Old Russian onomastic space both in the field of anthroponymy and toponymy takes into account the connection of proper names with contextual usage. The participation of nominal signs in the formation of the space of written and artistic texts of the era of the Kievan state is based on the attachment of certain proper names to texts of a religious and secular nature. Nomination in the space of proper names is considered in the monograph not only as a process of activity of a creative nature, but also as a means of onymic word production in the older era. 
 It is addressed to specialists in historical lexicology and onomastics, language history, teachers of literature, local historians.
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Jurg, Siegfried, ed. The status of common sense in psychology. Ablex Pub. Corp., 1994.
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Semantics of Prepositions: From Mental Processing to Natural Language Processing. De Gruyter, Inc., 2011.
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Zelinsky-Wibbelt, Cornelia. The Semantics of Prepositions: From Mental Processing to Natural Language Processing. Mouton de Gruyter, 1993.
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Kroll, Judith F. "The bilingual mental lexicon." In The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, Morphosyntax, and Semantics. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003412373-6.
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de Almeida, Roberto G., and Caitlyn Antal. "How Can Semantics Avoid the Troubles with the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction?" In Language, Cognition, and Mind. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50200-3_5.
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AbstractAt least since Quine (From a logical point of view. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1953) it has been suspected that a semantic theory that rests on defining features, or on what are taken to be “analytic” properties bearing on the content of lexical items, rests on a fault line. Simply put, there is no criterion for determining which features or propertiesFeatures are to be analytic and which ones are to be synthetic or contingent on experience. Deep down, our concern is what cognitive science and its several competing semantic theories have to offer in terms of solution. We analyze a few cases, which run into trouble by appealing to analyticity, and propose our own solution to this problem: a version of atomism cum inferences, which we think it is the only way out of the dead-end of analyticity. We start off by discussing several guiding assumptions regarding cognitive architecture and on what we take to be methodological imperatives for doing semantics within cognitive science—that is a semantics that is concerned with accounting for mental states. We then discuss theoretical perspectives on lexical causatives and the so-called “coercion” phenomenon or, in our preferred terminology, indeterminacy. And we advance, even if briefly, a proposal for the representation and processing of conceptual content that does away with the analytic/synthetic distinction. We argue that the only account of mental content that does away with the analytic/synthetic distinction is atomism. The version of atomism that we sketch accounts for the purported effects of analyticity with a system of inferences that are in essence synthetic and, thus, not content constitutive.
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Yokota, Masao. "Human-Specific Semantics of 4D Language as Mental Images." In Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Robotics. CRC Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9780429343391-8.
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Ross, William A. "Cognitive Linguistic Theory and the Biblical Languages." In Semitic Languages and Cultures. Open Book Publishers, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0358.03.
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This chapter introduces Cognitive Linguistic theory with special at-tention to its application to the study of the ancient languages of the Bible. Beginning with a brief survey of the historical background and origins of Cognitive Linguistics, this chapter then identifies four key theoretical commitments that unify an otherwise diverse ap-proach. Subsequently, this chapter identifies six major concepts within Cognitive Linguistics—image schemas, frame semantics, domains and conceptual metaphor, mental spaces and conceptual blending, prototypes and semantic extension, and cognitive ap-proaches to grammar—explaining them in some detail and demon-strating their application to biblical texts in either Greek or Hebrew. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the use of Cognitive Lin-guistics within biblical studies over the past few decades, highlight-ing recent applications and identifying potential for future research. Key words: Cognitive Linguistics; Greek; Hebrew; Biblical Lan-guages; Biblical Studies
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Yokota, Masao. "Cognitive Essentials for Mental Image Directed Semantic Theory." In Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Robotics. CRC Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9780429343391-4.
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Vanhove, Martine. "Semantic associations between sensory modalities, prehension and mental perceptions: A crosslinguistic perspective." In Studies in Language Companion Series. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/slcs.106.17van.
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Yokota, Masao. "Towards a Universal Knowledge Representation Language for Ubiquitous Intelligence Based on Mental Image Directed Semantic Theory." In Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11833529_113.
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Fauconnier, Gilles. "Mental Spaces, Language Modalities, and Conceptual Integration." In Semantics. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195136975.003.0017.
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Abstract In working on matters related to language over the years, my greatest surprise has been to find out how little of the rich meanings we construct is explicitly contained in the forms of language itself. I had taken it for granted, at first, that languages were essentially coding systems for semantic relations, and that sentences, when appropriately associated with “natural” pragmatic specifications, would yield full meanings. Quite interestingly, this is not the way language works, nor is it the way that meaning is constructed. Rather, language, along with other aspects of expres-sion and contextual framing, serves as a powerful means of prompting dynamic on-line construc-tions of meaning that go far beyond anything explicitly provided by the lexical and grammatical forms.
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Panaccio, Claude. "Semantics and Mental Language." In The Cambridge Companion to Ockham. Cambridge University Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ccol052158244x.004.
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Panaccio, Claude. "Ockham’s Intervention." In Mental Language, translated by Joshua P. Hochschild and Meredith K. Ziebart. Fordham University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823272600.003.0010.
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This chapter is dedicated to William of Ockham’s full-fledged theory of mental language. It shows how it was first developed on the basis of a reflection on what the objects of knowledge are, Ockham’s answer being that they are mental propositions composed of concepts. The ontological status of concepts is then examined—a question over which Ockham importantly changed his mind over the years. It is then shown how the technical apparatus of grammar and semantics was systematically transposed by Ockham to the fine-grained analysis of thought, with the result that thought itself could now be seen as a compositional semantic system. And finally the Ockhamistic idea that concepts are natural signs is discussed.
Conference papers on the topic "Mental language semantics"
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Baes, Naomi, Nick Haslam, and Ekaterina Vylomova. "Semantic Shifts in Mental Health-Related Concepts." In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.lchange-1.13.
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Koutny, Ilona, and Milan Kolka. "A multilingual and multifunctional dictionary in the service of language teaching." In EuroCALL 2024: CALL for humanity. Universitat Politècnica de València, 2024. https://doi.org/10.4995/eurocall2024.2024.19080.
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The acquisition of vocabulary is a basic aim of language learning. Ordinary dictionaries are organized in alphabetical order, but in learners’ mental lexicons, notions are rather linked by associations. The most obvious type of association is thematic. In order to use words properly, their context should be known. WordNets offer different relations to words, but they are not planned for language learning. To help the foreign language learning process, a thematic dictionary structure was worked out where the headwords are accompanied by their types, typical verbs and adjectives used with the given noun along also with related more specific concepts and expressions. The informatic system planned for use on the internet can guide the learner to different elements linked to the headword by clicking on a button, therefore they can have an overview of the semantic net of a given element of the core vocabulary which makes its use easier and faster. The dictionary system can be enlarged with new items and associated elements, new topics are also elaborated. It is multilingual (chapters in English, Esperanto, Hungarian, German, Polish, Lithuanian and Chinese are available), and new languages (such as French and Korean) can and will be added. The user can see the words in any constellation of two to three languages, not only those worked out for the traditional paper versions, therefore the language learning power is augmented.
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Khummongkol, Rojanee, Atisak Samart, Sarawut Chitthong, and Masao Yokota. "The Prototype Development of Thai Language Understanding based on Mental Image Directed Semantic Theory." In 2021 25th International Computer Science and Engineering Conference (ICSEC). IEEE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icsec53205.2021.9684619.
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Mendula, Matteo, Silvia Gabrielli, Francesco Finazzi, Cecilia Dompe', and Mauro Delucis. "Unveiling Mental Health Insights: A Novel NLP Tool for Stress Detection through Writing and Speaking Analysis to Prevent Burnout." In 15th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2024). AHFE International, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1004653.
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Nowadays, innovative approaches that precisely identify and treat health-related problems are becoming more and more necessary in a time of rapid technological advancement and growing mental health awareness. Given the prevalence of mental health issues, different tools that employ Artificial Intelligence to support rapid and effective interventions have been developed. This study focuses on the relationship between language expression and mental health, recognizing subtle nuances in both written and spoken communication as potential stress indicators and presenting a novel AI enhanced tool for autonomous and passive stress detection.Specifically, in our study data scientists and psychologists collaborate to create and validate a groundbreaking knowledge base. This innovative database combines psychometrics, biometrics, and linguistic analysis to provide a comprehensive evaluation of stress levels. We used biomedical indicators, such as blood pressure, heart rate variability (HRV), and cortisol levels correlations to validate the results. The multidisciplinary team brought together expertise from data science and psychology to create a novel database with a wide range of sentences that have been annotated with matching stress levels.Thanks to this strong psychometric framework for correlating language manifestation of stress with clinical diagnosis, we developed the first, to our knowledge, NLP (Natural Language Processing) tool for autonomous and passive stress detection. This includes a variety of emotional and cognitive stress indicators to provide a deeper understanding of stress that takes into account both subjective experiences and objective manifestations. Initial results show a strong relationship between the biomedical markers and the stress scores obtained from language analysis. By combining data science techniques with psychometric insights, our stress detection achieves 83% in terms of F1 score, providing a more complete picture of a person's stress profile.During the entire study, ethical considerations were taken into account, following well defined data privacy and protection protocols. In fact, before any data was added to the database, participants were carefully informed about the purpose of data collection.Workplace communication platforms may be combined with our NLP technology to track employee well-being in a professional context. This includes real-time alerts to managers and HR specialists, allowing for timely interventions and promoting a collaborative and positive work environment. The strong correlation between clinical metrics and linguistic semantic choices represents a significant step toward the reform of mental health care. In addition the impressive accuracy of the tool we developed provides a reliable support system for spotting stress symptoms in both written and spoken communication. This should help us to change the way we think about stress, assisting us to assess the presence of a burnout condition before it escalates into more serious health issues. The implementation of this technology into various elements of daily life has the potential to revolutionize society perceptions on mental health, allowing for a more in-depth knowledge of the multiple components involved with stress.
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Goryushina, Elena Aleksandrovna, and Anna Leonidovna Kuderova. "SPECIFICITY OF TRANSLATION OF METAPHORIC ECONOMIC TERMS." In Russian science: actual researches and developments. Samara State University of Economics, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.46554/russian.science-2020.03-1-397/403.
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This article offers a structure for studying metaphorical terms in the field of economics, in the context of translation difficulties that underlie their different perception in English and Russian. It is necessary to solve the following tasks in the course of the research: (1) to identify the semantic and pragmatic characteristics of metaphorical economic terms; (2) to determine the types of transformations used in the translation of metaphorical economic terms. Literal translation, modulation, and explicatory translation should be considered as typical ways to translate metaphorical economic terms, as it is shown in our research. And the choice of a particular translation method depends on various intra- and extra-linguistic factors, such as the historical and cultural background, the mental picture of the world presented in the source language.
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Das, Souvik, and Rohini Srihari. "Compos Mentis at SemEval2024 Task6: A Multi-Faceted Role-based Large Language Model Ensemble to Detect Hallucination." In Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024). Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.semeval-1.208.
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"Systematic Formulation and Computation of Subjective Spatiotemporal Knowledge Based on Mental Image Directed Semantic Theory: Toward a Formal System for Natural Intelligence." In International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science. SciTePress - Science and and Technology Publications, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0002203701330142.
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Puerta-Cortés, Diana Ximena, Jennifer Karina Hernández, Ana María Olaya, José Tovar, and Daniel Varela. "Training the working memory in older adults with the “Reta tu Memoria” video game." In INNODOCT 2019. Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/inn2019.2019.10219.
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The objective of this study was to train the visuospatial and semantic working memory of a sample of Colombian older adults through the design of a serious game. The sample was composed of 20 older adults whose ages ranged from 50 to 77 years and showed signs of normal ageing. The sample belonged to the Edad de Oro group from the Universidad de Ibagué in Colombia. Participation in this study was voluntary, and the socio-demographic data and Mini-Mental state examination questionnaires were administered. The video game’s creative process was developed over six months by a team made up of psychologists and systems engineers. The video game was created using 2D Construct3 game editor, and the use of JavaScript programming language and an advanced knowledge of HTML were required. Before training, two pilot sessions were carried out to adjust the video game structure. After that, the procedure was applied to the sample for 20 sessions. The time spent and errors made in the video game’s five levels were registered. The results show values of significant effect size. In conclusion, the Latin American samples help corroborate the central training hypothesis. Training through video games leads to improved visuospatial and semantic working memory performance.
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Arca, Vitor, Pedro Albuquerque, Victor Correia, et al. "RIGHT VS. LEFT TEMPORAL LOBE SEMIOLOGY IN DEMENTIA: LESSONS FROM TWO CASES WITH FOCAL FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA SYNDROMES." In XIII Meeting of Researchers on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders. Zeppelini Editorial e Comunicação, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5327/1980-5764.rpda100.
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Background: Case 1: a 59-year old man presented to our service with 4 years of progressive cognitive and behavioral symptoms. He became forgetful and experienced difficulties managing his payments. After 4 years he could no longer recognise his relatives. Cognitive assessment showed a mini-mental status examination of 17/30. MRI and SPECT revealed respectively focal atrophy and hipoperfusion of the frontal regions and anterior right temporal lobe. Case 2: a 72-year-old woman was brought to evaluation with a 5-years history of progressive language and behavioral deterioration. Her family reported early speech errors and behavioral changes, with a marked aggressiveness, ritualistic behaviors and hyperorality. Cognitive evaluation revealed a MMSE of 6/30 mainly due to a relatively fluent afasia. Brain MRI showed asymmetric cerebral atrophy, more prominent in the anterior left temporal lobe. Objective: N/H Methods: N/H Results: N/H Conclusion: We describe two cases of suspected frontotemporal dementia (FTD) syndromes. The left ATL may receive proportionately more input from the lexical and phonological centers subserving word processing. The right ATL may receive more input from right-lateralized emotion processing hubs. Focal atrophy of the left anterior temporal lobe has been associated with the semantic type of primary progressive aphasia evolving to semantic dementia. In contrast, focal atrophy of the right temporal lobe has recently been described as a controversial entity reported as the right temporal variant of FTD.
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Dimkov, Petar. "Kandinsky-Clérambault syndrome: Narration and psychosis." In 6th International e-Conference on Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences. Center for Open Access in Science, Belgrade, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.32591/coas.e-conf.06.18207d.
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Interpretation by means of retelling a story is an ordinary event in human life. However, under abnormal circumstances, e. g. delusions of the narrator, this process is altered and even distorted to various degrees in both qualitative and quantitative aspects. In such cases, the assumption of misrepresentation of the actual story emerges as most striking as it is in contradiction with the objective reality. In the current paper, I will focus on the discourse features in the narratives of patients with the Kandinsky-Clérambault syndrome since it provides some of the best cases that serve to support the main focus of my search, i.e. establishing to what degree we can believe the subjective interpretative narratives of mentally ill patients. This perspective, on its own, has given rise to some doubts in psychiatry as objective science. Our hypothesis is that there are clear-cut features of delusion, which can be outlined by linguistic analysis irrespective of the cultural belonging of the patient and described following the method of the omnipotence of language as a tool of semiotics. For our purpose, additional aspects of the problem will be developed in detail, such as the semantic levels in narration in general and outlined concepts of schizophrenia and delusion transparent in discourse carried out in any language.