Concepts, Frames and Cascades in Semantics, Cognition and Ontology.
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| Superior document: | Language, Cognition, and Mind Series ; v.7 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021. {copy}2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Language, Cognition, and Mind Series
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Cognitive Structures in Natural Language Semantics
- 2 Cognitive Structures in Philosophy
- 3 Cognitive Structures in Psychology
- 4 Summaries
- 4.1 Part I Pushing the Boundaries of Formal Semantics
- 4.2 Part II Concept Theory
- 4.3 Part III Conceptualizing Eventualities
- 4.4 Part IV Prototypes and Probabilities
- 4.5 Part V Cognition and Psychology
- References
- Pushing the Boundaries of Formal Semantics
- A Compositional Pluralist Semantics for Extensional and Attitude Verbs
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Accounts of Truth-Conditional and Attitude Content
- 2.1 The Relation Between Truth-Conditional and Attitude Content
- 2.2 Attempts at (Re-)Connecting Truth-Conditional and Attitude Content
- 2.3 Desiderata for an Account of Truth-Conditional and Attitude Content
- 3 Integrated Semantics
- 3.1 Centered Informational Situations
- 3.2 The Integrated Content of Sentences
- 3.3 The Interpretation of Proper Names
- 4 The Compositional Interpretation of VPs
- 5 Extensional and Attitude Verbs in IS
- 5.1 The Interpretation of Extensional Verbs
- 5.2 The Interpretation of Attitude Verbs
- 5.3 Attitudinal Embeddings of Extensional Verbs
- 6 Conclusion and Future Work
- References
- Counting Possible Configurations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Problem with Configurations
- 3 An Individual Concept Analysis
- 4 Generalizing the Individual Concept Analysis
- 4.1 Is Everything an Individual Concept?
- 4.2 Coercion to Constituting Parts
- 4.3 Joining and Counting Individual Concepts
- 4.4 Collective and Cumulative Interpretations
- 5 The Property Analysis
- 6 Conclusion
- References
- Structure and Ontology in Nonlocal Readings of Adjectives
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Nonlocal Readings of Adjectives
- 2.1 On `Occasional'
- 2.2 Returning to `Average'
- 2.3 Wrong.
- 2.4 `Whole' and `Entire'
- 2.5 Epistemic Adjectives
- 2.6 Same and Different
- 2.7 Modal Superlatives: `Possible' and Its Kin
- 2.8 Miscellaneous Obscurities and Novelties
- 3 Three Classes of Nonlocal Readings
- 4 Some Background
- 4.1 Incorporation
- 4.2 Structure Versus Ontology: The First Step
- 4.3 The Kind Analysis of `Occasional'
- 5 The Modular Strategy
- 5.1 Determiner-Like Adjectives
- 5.2 Determiners That Work
- 5.3 Determiners That Don't Work
- 5.4 A Word About `Occasional'
- 5.5 The Weak Quantifier Class
- 5.6 Summary
- 6 Taking Stock
- 6.1 Could Things Be so Simple?
- 6.2 Kinds and Concepts
- 7 Final Remarks
- References
- Concept Theory
- How Can Semantics Avoid the Troubles with the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction?
- 1 Semantics and the Architecture of Cognition
- 2 The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction and Semantic Theories
- 2.1 Causatives
- 2.2 Indeterminacy (or "Coercion")
- 3 Alternative: Atomism and Inferences
- 3.1 Back to Causatives
- 3.2 Back to "Coercion"
- 3.3 Conclusion: Atomic Concepts and Inferences
- References
- Linguistic Relativity and Flexibility of Mental Representations: Color Terms in a Frame Based Analysis
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Color Terms and Whorfianism: Some Coordinates
- 2.1 Universalism, ``deep'' and ``shallow'' Whorfianism
- Intertwined Issues
- 2.2 ``Shallow'' Effects of Color labelling
- 3 Frames and Representation of Colors
- 4 Color Words and Flexible Use of Representations' Features
- 5 A Brief Excursus into Another Conceptual Domain: Counting and Motor Representations
- 6 Back on Colors: Stroop Task And Language-Perception Interface
- 7 Conclusions and Open Questions
- References
- Implicatures and Naturalness
- 1 Theoretical Background
- 2 Input Data
- 3 Building an Implicature Space
- 4 Naturalness
- 5 Concluding Remarks
- References.
- Perception, Types and Frames
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Types and Cognition
- 3 Record Types and Frames
- 4 Conclusion
- References
- Conceptualizing Eventualities
- An XMG Account of Multiplicity of Meaning in Derivation
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Data and Analysis
- 3 XMG Implementation
- 4 Conclusion
- References
- Operationalizing the Role of Context in Language Variation: The Role of Perspective Alignment in the Spanish Imperfective Domain
- 1 Introduction
- 2 On the Spanish Present-Progressive and Simple-Present Markers
- 3 The Meaning of the Progressive and the Imperfective: A Communicative Perspective
- 4 The Markers of the Spanish Progressive Are not in Free Variation: Implications
- 5 Analysis: The Psychological Roots of Shared Perceptual Access
- 6 Summary and Conclusions
- References
- A Frame-Based Analysis of Verbal Particles in Hungarian
- 1 The Verbal Particle in Hungarian
- 2 Scalar Analysis and Frame-Semantic Representation
- 3 Semantic Analysis of Verbal Particles
- 4 Semantic Composition and the Syntax-Semantics Interface
- 5 Summary
- References
- On the Fictive Reading of German Steigen 'Climb, Rise': A Frame Account
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Previous Accounts of Fictive Motion
- 3 The Four Major Readings of Steigen 'Climb, Rise, Step'
- 4 Frame Analysis of Dynamic Steigen: Manner and Directional Reading
- 4.1 Frames for Objects
- 4.2 Steigenmm
- 4.3 Steigendir
- 5 Steigenfict: Admissible Modifiers and Subject Referents
- 6 Frame Analysis of Steigenfict
- 7 Steigenins
- 8 Conclusion
- References
- Cascades. Goldman's Level-Generation, Multilevel Categorization of Action, and Multilevel Verb Semantics
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 The Intuitive Notion of "Level-Generation"
- 1.2 The Structure of the Chapter
- 2 Level-Generation: Doing Multiple Things in One.
- 2.1 Preliminary: Act-Tokens, Act-Types, and Act-TTs
- 2.2 Goldman's Theory of Act-Levels
- 2.3 Critics of Goldman's Theory
- 2.4 Goldman's Theory of Human Action Applied to Cognitive Representation
- 2.5 Level-Generation and Augmentation Generation
- 2.6 C-Constitution
- 3 Cascades and Verb Classes
- 3.1 Basic Versus Non-basic Act-Types
- 3.2 Verbs of Basic and Non-basic Action
- 3.3 Criterion Predicates
- 3.4 Means of Explicit Level-Generation
- 3.5 Implicit Level-Generation
- 4 Cascades and Frames
- 4.1 Barsalou Frames
- 4.2 Cascades in Frame Theory
- 5 The Writing Cascade
- 5.1 Austin's Speech Act Cascade
- 5.2 The Cascade Structure of Writing by Hand
- 5.3 Types of Products and Levels of Manner Modification
- 5.4 Agencies at Cascade Levels
- 5.5 Objects at Cascade Levels
- 5.6 A Multitrack Notion of C-Constitution
- 6 Reference and Composition
- 6.1 Meaning and Reference of the Verb Write
- 6.2 Cascades and Composition
- 7 Conclusion: Cascades in Cognition, Semantics, and Life
- References
- Prototypes and Probabilities
- Modification and Default Inheritance
- 1 Prototype Compositionality and Modification
- 2 An Extended Modification Model
- 3 Experimental Data
- 3.1 Constraint Influences in the Data of Connolly et al. (ch14Connollyetal2007)
- 3.2 Experiments
- 4 Conclusion
- References
- A Frame-Theoretic Model of Bayesian Category Learning
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Weighted Bayesian Models of Categorisation
- 3 Frames
- 3.1 Challenges and Future Developments
- 4 Conclusion
- References
- Extremes are Typical. A Game Theoretical Derivation
- 1 Typicality: Prototypes Versus Stereotypes
- 2 Typicality and Structured Meaning Spaces
- 3 Extremes and Iterated Best Response
- 4 Conclusion and Outlook
- References
- Grading Similarity
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Similarity Demonstratives.
- 3 Three Types of Similarity Expressions
- 4 Gradability of ähnlich/similar
- 4.1 What Does It Mean to Be More Similar?
- 4.2 Gradability and Granularity
- 5 Conclusion
- Appendix: Granularity in Multi-dimensional Attribute Spaces
- Domains and Representations
- Indiscernibility
- Granularity and Gradability
- References
- Cognition and Psychology
- Escitalopram Restores Reversal Learning Impairments in Rats with Lesions of Orbital Frontal Cortex
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 How Is Behavioural Flexibility Measured and Cognitive Flexibility Inferred?
- 2 Methods
- 2.1 Animals
- 2.2 Apparatus
- 2.3 Surgery
- 2.4 Experiment 1: The Effects of Escitalopram on Reversal Learning
- 2.5 Experiment 2: Fos Activity After 1 mg/kg Escitalopram
- 3 Results
- 3.1 Experiment 1
- 3.2 Experiment 2
- 4 Discussion
- 4.1 Reversal Learning
- 4.2 The Effects of OFC Lesions on Reversal Learning
- 4.3 The Effects of Escitalopram on Reversal Learning
- 4.4 Fos Activity
- References
- Rat Ultrasonic Vocalizations as Social Reinforcers-Implications for a Multilevel Model of the Cognitive Representation of Action and Rats' Social World
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methods
- 2.1 Subjects
- 2.2 Experimental Setup
- 2.3 Acoustic Stimuli
- 2.4 Task Design
- 2.5 Data Analysis
- 3 Results
- 4 Discussion
- 5 A Cognitive Perspective: Acting at Multiple Levels
- 5.1 Goldman's Multilevel Theory of Human Action
- 5.2 Cascades and Learning
- 5.3 Applying Cascade Theory to Rat Behavior in the Experiments Reported
- 5.4 Psychological Commitments of the Cascade Approach
- 5.5 What Can the Cascade Approach Buy Us?
- 6 Conclusions
- References
- Influence of Manner Adverbs on Action Verb Processing
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Experiment 1
- 2.1 Methods
- 2.2 Results
- 3 Experiment 2
- 3.1 Methods
- 3.2 Results
- 3.3 Discussion
- References.
- When Mechanical Computations Explain Better.