When communicating, we draw concepts from our semantic memory into structured speech, using grammar to connect different words and phrases to convey meaning. Through this process, we metaphorically ...

This talk by Elisabetta Ježek presents linguistic evidence why we need a context-sensitive model of lexical semantics to account for how lexical information, cognitive knowledge, pragmatic inference ...

Unlike alphabetic writing systems (e.g., English) where their grapheme-to-phoneme (letter-to-sound) correspondence rules play an important role in reading, Chinese’s ideographic nature and their lack ...