If the structure of language vocabularies mirrors the structure of natural divisions that are universally perceived, then the meanings of words in different languages should closely align. By contrast, if shared word meanings are a product of shared cult
Cognitive DevelopmentInferences about the meanings of nouns: The relationship between perception and syntax - Soja - 1992 () Citation Context ... Samuelson & Smith, 1999). The material bias for nonsolids is much weaker and often not reliable at this age. In some studies 2-year-olds have ...
Annotators may legitimately disagree on a sense annotation, depending on their own personal cognitive biases. We do not seek to penalise this, but rather to capture and learn from it. This was the reason that we chose to employ a final annotator who we worked closely with to refine the ...
Evidence is growing for the involvement of consolidation processes in the learning and retention of language, largely based on instances of new linguistic components (e.g., new words). Here, we assessed whether consolidation effects extend to the semantic processing of highly familiar words. The ...