Language is essentially human. It is the crowning accomplishment of our social and
cognitive competences. Language bridges society and cognition. It is a distributed emergent …

Statistical approaches to emergent knowledge have tended to focus on the process by
which experience of individual episodes accumulates into generalizable experience across …

Since the 1970s, an extensive body of scholarly work by Elizabeth Bates has addressed
significant and important questions facing the cognitive sciences. In numerous articles and …

Cognitive linguists are bound by the cognitive commitment, which is the commitment to
providing a characterization of the general principles governing all aspects of human …

This chapter highlights the fundamental assumptions shared by all constructionist
approaches, distinguishing them from mainstream generative grammar. In particular …

In this response to commentators, I agree with those who suggested that the distinction
between exemplar-and abstraction-based accounts is something of a false dichotomy and …

Concreteness—the psycholinguistic property of referring to a perceptible entity—enhances
processing speed, comprehension, and memory. These represent selective filters for …

We share an interest in language. We want to understand it, its origins, structure, functions,
use, acquisition, instruction, and change. We seek causes for observed effects. Scientific …

This volume outlines a model of language that can be characterized as functionalist, usage-
based, dynamic, and complex-adaptive. The core idea is that linguistic structure is not stable …

Semantic Leaps explores how people combine knowledge from different domains in order to
understand and express new ideas. Concentrating on dynamic aspects of on-line meaning …