Relational reasoning, the ability to discern meaningful patterns within otherwise
unconnected information, is regarded as central to human learning and cognition and as …

Cognitive linguists and psychologists have often argued that language is best understood as
an association network; however while the network view of language has had a significant …

Abstract Design science research strives to be practical and relevant. Yet few researchers
have examined the extent to which practitioners can meaningfully utilize theoretical …

All languages provide ways to talk about events and their participants; this function is
typically assumed in great part by verbs. It is precisely for this reason that, more so than …

The goal of this article is to make the case for a radical exemplar account of child language
acquisition, under which unwitnessed forms are produced and comprehended by on-the-fly …

We investigate the extent to which modern neural language models are susceptible to
structural priming, the phenomenon whereby the structure of a sentence makes the same …

While lexico-semantic elements no doubt capture a large amount of linguistic information, it
has been argued that they do not capture all information contained in text. This assumption …

This priming study investigates the role of conceptual structure during language production,
probing whether English speakers are sensitive to the structure of the event encoded by a …

According to constructional approaches, grammar consists of an inventory of symbolic
pairings of a syntactic form with an abstract meaning. Many of such so-called constructions …

What are the semantic representations that underlie language production? We use structural
priming to distinguish between two competing theories. Thematic roles define semantic …