Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Conceptualization

Language; Linguistics

The process of meaning construction to which language contributes. It does so by providing access to rich encyclopaedic knowledge and by prompting for complex processes of conceptual ...

A common capacity, shared by all humans, to generate concepts, which derives from fundamental and shared aspects of human cognition. Rather than positing universal linguistic principles, cognitive ...

Construction grammars

Language; Linguistics

A set of cognitive approaches to grammar which assume that the construction (1) is the fundamental unit of grammar. There are several distinct varieties of construction grammars including: Fillmore ...

Conceptually autonomous

Language; Linguistics

The property of being independently meaningful which is associated with nominal predications. For instance, expressions such as bed or slipper invoke concepts that are independently meaningful. ...

Figure-ground organisation

Language; Linguistics

Human perception appears to automatically segregate any given spatial scene into a figure and a ground. A figure is an entity that, among other things, possesses a dominant shape, due to a definite ...

Force-dynamics system

Language; Linguistics

One of the schematic systems which make up the conceptual structuring system. This system relates to our experience of how physical entities interact with respect to force, including the exertion and ...

Focus of attention

Language; Linguistics

One of the kinds of pattern which serve to govern the distribution of attention in the attentional system. This pattern is illustrated by the following examples: # The wine merchant sold the ...