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Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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socio-cognitive mechanisms in language acquisition

Language; Linguistics

Relates to the view that children bring a battery of socio-cognitive skills to the language acquisition process and is advocated by developmental psycholinguists who take an emergentism perspective. ...

source domain

Language; Linguistics

In conceptual metaphor theory the source domain is the domain (2) which provides structure by virtue of metaphor. This is achieved by cross-domain mappings projecting structure from the source domain ...

space builders

Language; Linguistics

In mental spaces theory, mental spaces are set up by space builders which are linguistic units that either prompt for the construction of a new mental space or shift attention back and forth between ...

reification

Language; Linguistics

An example of a conceptual conversion operation. Relates to the operation that converts our conceptualization of time (or action) into space (or matter): an act can be converted into an object or an ...

relation

Language; Linguistics

In mental spaces theory, a relation can be assigned as holding between elements in a given mental space. In the following sentence: In the picture, a witch is riding a unicorn , the expression In ...

relational predication

Language; Linguistics

In cognitive grammar, a relational predication relates to the schematic meaning encoded by lexical classes such as verbs, adjectives, prepositions and so on (relations). The term ‘predication’ ...

relationships between constructions

Language; Linguistics

In construction grammar (2), the construction consists of a network of constructions and relationships between them. Relationships between constructions are captured in terms of inheritance (2) and ...