Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Prototype

Language; Linguistics

A relatively abstract mental representation that assembles the key attributes or features that best represent instances of a given category. Accordingly, the prototype is viewed as a schematic ...

Relates to the occurrence of repeated attributes across distinct members, or exemplars, of a particular category which gives rise to a prototype. Prototype structure thus concerns the degree to which ...

Radical construction grammar (RCG)

Language; Linguistics

A theory of construction grammar developed by William Croft . Radical construction grammar (RCG) sets out to explore the implications of linguistic typology for syntactic theory. Linguistic typology ...

Proto-scene

Language; Linguistics

In the principled polysemy model of lexical representation the central sense for a preposition such as over is directly grounded in a specific kind of recurring spatial scene. This spatial scene, ...

Reference frame

Language; Linguistics

Represents the means language has at its disposal for using a reference object in order to locate a figure. A reference frame serves to locate the figure by virtue of establishing a spatial relation ...

Radial category

Language; Linguistics

A category whose members are organised with respect to a composite prototype. The members of the radial category are not generated. Rather, they are extended by convention and therefore must be ...

Protracted duration

Language; Linguistics

The phenomenologically real experience in which time 'feels' as if it is proceeding 'more slowly' than usual. This experience is attested in situations when more of the perceptual stimulus array is ...