The paper presents some empirical studies aimed at singling out the meanings of specific items of gaze and of some of their parameters. It argues that the values on some parameters of gaze items are not comparable to phonemes in a verbal language, but rather to morphemes, since by themselves they convey some specific meanings. The different positions of the upper and lower eyelids are combined ...

This paper mainly applies the qualia structure theory to the study of compound nouns whose lexical meanings cannot be inferred from their morpheme meanings by taking some undirected disyllabic compound nouns as example from the Chinese Semantic Word-formation Database. The paper concludes some specific ways by which morpheme meanings can be integrated with lexical meanings. It is hoped that the...

In this paper, we describe a method for mapping the phonological feature location of Swedish Sign Language (SSL) signs to the meanings in the Swedish semantic dictionary SALDO. By doing so, we observe clear differences in the distribution of meanings associated with different locations on the body. The prominence of certain locations for specific meanings clearly point to iconic mappings betwee...

Beck [1] developed cognitive therapy which led to broad therapeutic innovations and successful applications in the field of psychotherapy [2-4]. Mostly, by virtue of its linear nature and lack of empirical support from cognitive science, this clinically-driven model faced some limitations in practice [5]. To overcome the shortcomings, Teasdale and Barnard [6] experimentally investigated the lin...

it is well-known that “casual conditional” in islamic logics has been used with two meanings: “specific conditional” and “general conditional”. however, viewing the works of the muslim logicians, we find out that these two meanings of “casual conditional” have been interpreted in two various ways: each of the general and specific conditionals is sometimes interpreted as the condition of “non-ne...

Many characters in written Chinese incorporate components (radicals) that provide cues to meaning. These are often partial, and some misleading because they unrelated the character’s Previous studies have shown radicals influence reader’s processing of which occur (e.g., Feldman Siok J Memory Language 40(4):559–576, 1999). We investigated whether readers automatically activate semantic informat...

Existing evidence seems to indicate that Muslims in Scotland have constructed hyphenated or hybrid identities that draw on religion, ethnicity and nationality. However, minor attention has been given to the differences in importance, meanings, and strengths of these identities, or the significance of their identity markers. Ethnic minority people can be identified with both their ethnic groups ...