DA Haslett, ZG Cai - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2024 - Springer
The form of a word sometimes conveys semantic information. For example, the iconic word gurgle sounds like what it means, and busy is easy to identify as an English adjective …
DE Blasi, S Wichmann… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
It is widely assumed that one of the fundamental properties of spoken language is the arbitrary relation between sound and meaning. Some exceptions in the form of nonarbitrary …
It has been proposed that social experience plays an important role in the grounding of concepts, and socialness has been proffered as a fundamental organisational principle …
The distinction between abstract and concrete concepts is fundamental to cognitive linguistics and cognitive science. This distinction is commonly operationalized through …
It is well-established that there are relationships between word meaning and certain letters or phonemes, a phenomenon known as sound symbolism. Most sound symbolism studies …
It is generally accepted that a word's emotional valence (ie, whether a word is perceived as positive, negative, or neutral) influences how it is accessed and remembered. There is also …
L Zdrazilova, DM Sidhu… - … Transactions of the …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Abstract words refer to concepts that cannot be directly experienced through our senses (eg truth, morality). How we ground the meanings of abstract words is one of the deepest …
Abstract words are typically more difficult to identify than concrete words in lexical-decision, word-naming, and recall tasks. This behavioral advantage, known as the concreteness …
This paper investigates the historical (1850s–2000s) evolution of semantics in the English language using contemporaneous, decade-specific computational estimates of word …