The wording of political messages is known to affect voting behavior, including judgments
about whether or not candidates will be elected. Yet the question remains whether voting …

Embodied approaches to comprehension propose that understanding language entails
performing mental simulations of its content. The evidence, however, is mixed. Action …

Human speakers have an extensive toolkit of ways to express themselves. In this paper, we
engage with an idea largely absent from discussions of meaning in natural language …

Recent research using eye-tracking typically relies on constrained visual contexts in
particular goal-oriented contexts, viewing a small array of objects on a computer screen and …

Embodied approaches to cognition see abstract thought and language as grounded in
interactions between mind, body, and world. A particularly important challenge for embodied …

A few years ago, I began exploring the idea of grammatical framing. In an article with Caitlin
Fausey,“Can Grammar Win Elections?” published in Political Psychology, we explored the …

Grammatical aspect is a pervasive linguistic device that, according to linguistic analyses,
allows speakers to encode different ways of construing events. For instance, the progressive …

A tanulmány első része a kognitív szemantika alapjait mutatja be. A nyelv rendszer és
használat egysége, s az erről való emberi tudás szorosan összefügg a világról való …

How do people describe events they have witnessed? What role does linguistic aspect play
in this process? To provide answers to these questions, we conducted an experiment on …

This dissertation uses corpus data from ASL and Libras (Brazilian Sign Language), to
investigate the distribution of a series of static and dynamic handshapes across the two …