Compositionality and Concepts in Linguistics and Psychology.

• Superior document: Language, Cognition, and Mind Series ; v.3
• Author: Hampton, James A.
• TeilnehmendeR: Winter, Yoad.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2017.; Ã2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Language, Cognition, and Mind Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (342 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Contributors
• 1 Introduction
• Abstract
• References
• 2 Cognitively Plausible Theories of Concept Composition
• Abstract
• 1 Background Framework
• 1.1 Content Variability
• 2 Multiple Representational Forms
• 3 Pragmatic Constraint
• 4 Conclusion
• References
• Compositionality and Concepts---A Perspective from Formal Semantics and Philosophy of Language
• 1 (Some) Deep Background
• 2 (Some) Features of Compositionality
• 3 (Some) Philosophers of Language
• 4 (Some) Cognitive Psychologists
• 5 (Some) Linguistic Theories
• 5.1 (Some) Externalists
• 5.2 (Some) Emergentists
• 5.3 (Some) Essentialists
• 6 (Some) Objectivists Versus (Some) Subjectivists
• 6.1 Concepts and Privacy
• 6.2 Concepts and Meaning
• 6.3 Specificity and Meaning in Particular Instances of Language Use
• 6.4 Compositionality Cuts both Ways
• 7 (Some) Desiderata for a Two-Tiered Semantic Theory
• 7.1 Objectivist Two-Tiered Theories
• 7.2 Subjectivist Two-Tiered Theories
• 7.3 Two-Tiered Theories with a Nexus
• 8 (Some) Aspects of Current Theories of Mental Concepts that Require Attention
• 8.1 (Some) Messy Details for Conceptual Theories
• 8.2 Concepts, Sentences, and Bradley's Regress
• 8.3 REAL Negation, Conjunction, Conditional, and Disjunction
• 9 (Some) Concluding Remarks
• References
• 4 Compositionality and Concepts
• Abstract
• 1 Concepts and Prototypes
• 1.1 Combining Prototypes
• 1.2 Intensional Composition
• 1.3 Prototypes as Intensions
• 1.4 Context Sensitivity
• 1.5 Typicality and Gradedness
• 1.6 Does Variation in Typicality Really Undermine the Classical Model?
• 1.7 Ingredients of Typicality 1: Ideals
• 1.8 Ingredients of Typicality 2: Frequency and Familiarity
• 1.9 Typicality and Membership
• 1.10 Differentiating Vagueness from Ignorance.
• 1.11 Concept Intensions as Fundamental
• 1.12 Impossible Objects and Hierarchical Levels
• 1.13 Results
• 2 Conclusions
• References
• 5 Typicality Knowledge and the Interpretation of Adjectives
• Abstract
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Overextension and World Knowledge
• 1.2 Further Effects of World Knowledge Involving Color Terms
• 2 Experiments
• 2.1 Pretest: Category Confirmation and Color Shift Judgments Along a Spectrum
• 3 Experiment 1: Forced Choice Between a Focal Color Versus a Nonfocal, Typical Color
• 4 Method
• 4.1 Results
• 5 Experiment 2: Yes-No Categorization Judgment
• 5.1 Method
• 5.2 Results
• 5.3 Discussion
• 6 Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• References
• 6 Concept Typicality and the Interpretation of Plural Predicate Conjunction
• Abstract
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Context and Logical Meaning
• 3 Typicality: Defining Context
• 4 Experimental Investigation
• 4.1 Pretests: Constructing Materials
• 4.2 Experiment 1: Interpretation of Plural Predicate Conjunction Sentences
• 4.3 Experiment 2: Compatibility of Predicate Pairs
• 4.4 Correlation Between Interpretation and Compatibility
• 5 Discussion
• 5.1 Reference Shift of the Plural Subject?
• 5.2 Other Measures of Typicality
• 5.3 Further Areas
• 6 Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• Appendix
• References
• Critical Typicality: Truth Judgements and Compositionality with Plurals and Other Gradable Concepts
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Vagueness and Acceptability Functions
• 3 Distributivity and Reciprocity as Gradable Concepts
• 4 Acceptability Versus Typicality
• 5 Guppy effects with gradable adjectives
• 6 Guppy Effects with Plurals
• 7 The Effect of Critical Typicality on Acceptability
• 8 Conclusion
• References
• 8 Complement Coercion as the Processing of Aspectual Verbs: Evidence from Self-paced Reading and fMRI
• Abstract
• 1 Introduction.
• 1.1 The Complement Coercion Phenomenon
• 1.2 Challenges to the Type-Shifting Hypothesis
• 1.3 The Structured Individual (SI) Analysis
• 2 Pretest: Norming Questionnaire
• 2.1 Method
• 2.1.1 Participants
• 2.1.2 Materials
• 2.1.3 Procedures
• 2.2 Results
• 3 Experiment 1: Self-paced Reading
• 3.1 Method
• 3.1.1 Participants
• 3.1.2 Materials
• 3.1.3 Procedure
• 3.1.4 Data Analysis
• 3.2 Results
• 4 Experiment 2: fMRI
• 4.1 Method
• 4.1.1 Participants
• 4.1.2 Materials
• 4.1.3 Experimental Design
• 4.1.4 Imaging Acquisition
• 4.1.5 fMRI Data Analysis
• 4.2 Results
• 4.2.1 Behavioral Results
• 4.2.2 Imaging Results
• 5 Discussion
• 6 Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• References
• 9 Conceptual Combination, Property Inclusion, and the Aristotelian-Thomistic View of Concepts
• Abstract
• 1 Overview
• 2 Background
• 3 Current Experiment
• 3.1 Method
• 3.2 Results
• 4 Discussion
• 4.1 The Aristotelian-Thomistic Approach
• 4.2 Applying the A-T View to the Modification Effect
• 5 Conclusion
• Conceptual Versus Referential Affordance in Concept Composition
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Two Approaches to Analyzing Modification
• 3 A Dual System for Semantic Composition
• 3.1 Conceptually Versus Referentially Afforded Composition
• 3.2 Empirical Evidence Supporting the Distinction
• 4 Conceptually Afforded Composition with Distributional Semantics
• 5 A Mixed Model for Two Types of Semantic Composition
• 6 Conclusions
• References
• 11 How Does the Left Anterior Temporal Lobe Contribute to Conceptual Combination? Interdisciplinary Perspectives
• Abstract
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The LATL as a Central Combinatory Region
• 3 Theories of Conceptual Combination
• 3.1 Schema-Based Models
• 3.2 Relation-Based Models
• 3.3 Summary
• 4 Processing Predictions of Schema and Relation-Based Models
• 4.1 Storage and Retrieval.
• 4.2 Composition
• 4.2.1 What Is the Combinatory Process?
• 4.2.2 Timing of Composition
• 5 Conclusions and Future Directions
• Acknowledgements
• References
• 12 Dimension Accessibility as a Predictor of Morphological Gradability
• Abstract
• 1 Adjectives Versus Nouns in Comparison Constructions
• 1.1 The Challenges
• 1.2 Psychological Theories of Similarity-Based Categorization
• 1.3 Logical Operations of Quantification Over Dimensions in Adjective Categorization
• 2 A Pilot Study of Acceptability Judgments
• 2.1 Method
• 2.2 Results
• 3 Discussion
• Acknowledgements
• Appendix A: Averages on 25 Participants for the Comparison Conditions with Nouns (Left) and Adjectives (Right)
• Appendix B: Averages on 25 Participants for the 24 Nouns in Baseline and Modified Conditions
• Appendix C: The Full Set of Sentences Together with Their Naturalness Mean and Sd
• References
• Author Index
• Subject Index.