1.1 Abstract Concepts and Word Meanings: How to Define Them?.............................. 1 1.2
Abstraction and Abstractness......................... 3 1.2. 1 Abstractness and the Glue of …

Language exerts a powerful influence on our concepts. We review evidence documenting
the developmental origins of a precocious link between language and object categories in …

Human beings are active agents who can think. To understand how thought serves action
requires understanding how people conceive of the relation between cause and effect …

Research in the information systems (IS) field has often been characterized as fragmented.
This paper builds on a belief that for the field to move forward and have an impact on …

Languages vary idiosyncratically in the sets of referents to which common nouns are
applied. To use nouns as a native speaker would, second language learners must acquire …

Rather than having universal linguistic categories for sets of common objects, languages
develop their own, idiosyncratic naming patterns for them. Accounting for these patterns …

Internal representations guide our navigation of the world, while language allows us to
share some of what is encoded internally with others. I have been interested in the content of …

Despite arguments for the relative ease of learning common noun meanings, semantic
development continues well past the early years of language acquisition even for names of …

The present paper seeks to understand more about categorisation and its relation to
naming. A patient with language impairments (LEW) was examined in a three-part …

Classifier languages are spoken by a large portion of the world's population, but
psychologists have only recently begun to investigate the psychological reality of classifier …