Within the cognitive sciences, most researchers assume that it is the job of linguists to
investigate how language is represented, and that they do so largely by building theories …

Language production processes can provide insight into how language comprehension
works and language typology—why languages tend to have certain characteristics more …

How Words Mean introduces a new approach to the role of words and other linguistic units
in the construction of meaning. It does so by addressing the interaction between non …

Within the cognitive linguistics tradition, polysemy has often been viewed as a function of
underlying entries in semantic memory: word forms have distinct, albeit related, lexical …

What aspects of spatial relations influence speakers' choice of locative? This article presents
a study of static spatial descriptions from 24 languages. The study reveals two kinds of …

Structural priming offers a powerful method for experimentally investigating the mental
representation of linguistic structure. We clarify the nature of our proposal, justify the …

Branigan & Pickering (B&P) advocate the use of syntactic priming to investigate linguistic
representations and argue that it overcomes several purported deficiencies of acceptability …

The spatial uses of the French prepositions à, dans and sur may be translated by either at,
in, on or to, into, onto, depending on whether the landmark introduces the actual or the …

Acceptability judgments are no longer acceptable as the holy grail for testing the nature of
linguistic representations. Experimental and quantitative methods should be used to test …

What do people know when they know a word? Previous accounts of the semantics of
spatial locatives suggest that spatial meaning is based on both geometric and extra …