Abstract The distinction between abstract and concrete concepts is fundamental to cognitive linguistics science. This commonly operationalized through concreteness ratings based on the aggregated judgments of many people. What often overlooked in experimental studies using this operationalization that are attributed words , not directly. In paper we explore relationship linguistic properties En...

Native tonal-language speakers exhibit reduced sensitivity to lexical tone differences within, compared to across, categories (higher-level linguistic category influence). Yet, sensitivity is enhanced among musically trained, non-tonal-language-speaking individuals (lower-level acoustics processing influence). The current study investigated the relative contribution of higher- and lower-level i...

Word retrieval deficits for specific grammatical categories, such as verbs versus nouns, occur as a consequence of brain damage. Such deficits are informative about the nature of lexical organization in the human brain. This study examined retrieval of grammatical categories across three languages in a trilingual person with aphasia who spoke Arabic, French, and English. In order to delineate t...

Congenital amusia is a lifelong musical disorder. It has been found that tonal-language speakers with amusia are impaired in lexical tone perception. But it has also been found that tonal-language experience compensates the deficit in certain scenario, reducing prevalence rate of amusia in speakers of a highly complex tonal-language – Cantonese. Thus it remains unclear whether lexical tone perc...

A system tbr lexical acquisition is presented where word meanings are represented by clusters of phrase patterns obtained from analysis of a text corpus. A sample of cases, in the form of a concordance of phrases in which a particular word occurs in the text, is used Ibr the basic analysis. Clustering techniques are used to group together cases having similar grammar and/or meaning. This view i...

Although the semantic analysis and the grammatical distribution are treated as separate issues in linguistic theories, there is a close interconnection between the two in that the differences in the lexical meanings are often realized at the levels both of the grammatical function and of the lexical collocation. This is the basic assumption utilized when we design and develop Knowledge Base of ...

This study investigated how lexical access in naming tasks (picture naming, naming to open-ended sentences, and naming to category exemplars) might be influenced by different lexical factors during adolescence and adulthood. Participants included 1075 individuals, ranging in age from 12 to 83 years. Lexical factors examined included word frequency and familiarity, age of acquisition, neighborho...

Recent work recognizes that lexical category can be relevant for phonology, because phonological processes and phonotactics are sometimes category-sensitive (Smith 1997, 2001; Myers 2000; Bobaljik 2008; see also Cohen 1964; Chomsky & Halle 1968; Postal 1968; Kenstowicz & Kisseberth 1977). Moreover, there are strong cross-linguistic tendencies concerning the nature of phonological differences be...

This paper reviews the modular, statistical model of human lexical category disambiguation (SLCM) proposed by Corley and Crocker (2000). The SLCM is distinct lexical category disambiguation mechanism within the human sentence processor, which uses word-category frequencies and category bigram frequencies for the initial resolution of category (part-of-speech) ambiguities. The model has been sho...