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Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Property

Language; Linguistics

In mental spaces theory, a property can be assigned to an element in a given mental space. In the following sentence: In that play, Othello is jealous , the expression In that play is a ...

A term coined by Ronald Langacker to refer to the cognitive representation of time, where time is a medium of conceptualization. In this sense processing time is 'real time', in the sense that any ...

Propagation

Language; Linguistics

The selection and use of a particular utterance containing a particular lingueme or set of linguemes which diffuses a particular altered replication (the innovation) through a linguistic ...

Sentence

Language; Linguistics

An abstract entity based on prototypical patterns found in utterances. In other words, a sentence is an idealisation that has determinate properties, often stated in terms of grammatical structure. ...

Simulation

Language; Linguistics

The human ability to mentally activate or rehearse perceptual images such as particular sensations or experiences in the absence of the external perceptual stimulus which gives rise to the images. ...

Simplex network

Language; Linguistics

The simplest kind of integration network. A simplex network involves two input spaces, one that contains a frame with roles and another that contains values. What makes this an integration network is ...

Semantic structure reflects conceptual structure

Language; Linguistics

The second of the guiding principles of cognitive semantics. Asserts that language refers to concepts in the mind of the speaker rather than, directly, to entities which inhere in an objectively real ...