Encoding Events

Author : Xuhui Hu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192535962

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Encoding Events by Xuhui Hu Pdf

This volume presents theoretical and empirical research on the syntax of events within the broader framework of generative grammar, focusing on the central question of how conceptual meaning interacts with narrow syntactic computation. Xuhui Hu proposes a set of integration conditions that require the content of the predicate to be licensed by theta-role information generated by narrow syntax. The other principal theoretical component of the book concerns the functional structure of events, which is related to issues such as the parallel between the event and nominal domains, the mapping of a predicate onto an entity, and the grammatical foundation of verb classification. The framework is applied to three areas: the syntax of resultatives in English and Chinese, cross-linguistic and diachronic variation in resultatives, and applicative constructions. The findings shed light on the thematic relationship between core arguments and predicates and on the syntax of non-core arguments, contribute to the theory of parametric variation in the generative tradition, and provide insights into the verb-framed vs satellite-framed typology

Author : Till Woerfel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501507977

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Encoding Motion Events by Till Woerfel Pdf

Children who grow up as second- or third-generation immigrants typically acquire and speak the minority language at home and the majority language at school. Recurrently, these children have been the subject of controversial debates about their linguistic abilities in relation to their educational success. However, such debates fail to recognise that variation in bilinguals’ language processing is a phenomenon in its own right that results from the dynamic influence of one language on another. This volume provides insight into cross-linguistic influence in Turkish-German and Turkish-French bilingual children and uncovers the nature of variation in L1 and L2 oral motion event descriptions by evaluating the impact of language-specific patterns and language dominance. The results indicate that next to typological differences between the speakers’ L1 and L2, language dominance has an impact on the type and direction of influence. However, the author argues that most variation can be explained by L1/L2 usage preferences. Bilinguals make frequent use of patterns that exist in both languages, but are unequally preferred by monolingual speakers. This finding underlines the importance of usage-based approaches in SLA.

Author : Juliana Goschler,Anatol Stefanowitsch
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270948

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Variation and Change in the Encoding of Motion Events by Juliana Goschler,Anatol Stefanowitsch Pdf

The linguistic typology of motion event encoding is one of the central topics in Cognitive Linguistics. A vast body of typological, contrastive, and psycholinguistic research has shown the potential, but also the limitations of the original distinction between verb-framed and satellite-framed languages. This volume contains ten original papers focusing specifically on the variation and change of motion event encoding in individual languages and language families. The authors show that some of the central claims about motion event encoding need careful re-examination and reformulation and that individual languages and language families are more variable across space and time than even a refined typology could neatly capture at this time. The volume thus contributes to a more detailed and fine-grained foundation for the investigation of conceptual causes and consequences of different motion-event encoding strategies.

Author : Jingxia Lin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262974

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Encoding Motion Events in Mandarin Chinese by Jingxia Lin Pdf

This book is a corpus-based description and discussion of how Modern Mandarin Chinese encodes motion events, with a focus on how the distribution of verbal motion morphemes is closely associated with the meanings they lexicalize. The book is not only the first work that proposes a finer-grained classification and diagnostics of Chinese motion morphemes from the perspective of scale structure, but also the first to more comprehensively account for the ordering of Chinese motion morphemes. The findings of this study will not only enrich the literature on motion events, but more importantly, further our understanding of the nature of motion events and the way motion events are conceived and represented in the Chinese language. The major proposals and the cognitive functional approach of this work will also shed light on studies beyond motion. The book will be a valuable resource for scholars interested in motion events, syntax-semantic interface, and typology.

Author : Mila Vulchanova,Emile van der Zee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199661213

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Motion Encoding in Language and Space by Mila Vulchanova,Emile van der Zee Pdf

This book brings together researchers in linguistics, computer science, psychology and cognitive science to investigate how motion is encoded in language. Part I considers the parameters of the field, while part II looks at the way in which spatial scale or granularity plays a role in the encoding of motion in language.

Author : Victoria E. Stevens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:X68979

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Cortical Contributions to the Detection and Encoding of Novel Auditory Events by Victoria E. Stevens Pdf

Author : Thomas F. Shipley,Jeffrey M. Zacks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190293314

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Understanding Events by Thomas F. Shipley,Jeffrey M. Zacks Pdf

We effortlessly recognize all sorts of events--from simple events like people walking to complex events like leaves blowing in the wind. We can also remember and describe these events, and in general, react appropriately to them, for example, in avoiding an approaching object. Our phenomenal ease interacting with events belies the complexity of the underlying processes we use to deal with them. Driven by an interest in these complex processes, research on event perception has been growing rapidly. Events are the basis of all experience, so understanding how humans perceive, represent, and act on them will have a significant impact on many areas of psychology. Unfortunately, much of the research on event perception--in visual perception, motor control, linguistics, and computer science--has progressed without much interaction. This volume is the first to bring together computational, neurological, and psychological research on how humans detect, classify, remember, and act on events. The book will provide professional and student researchers with a comprehensive collection of the latest research in these diverse fields.

Author : Paul van den Broek,Patricia J. Bauer,Tammy Bourg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135449896

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Developmental Spans in Event Comprehension and Representation by Paul van den Broek,Patricia J. Bauer,Tammy Bourg Pdf

This book is about building metaphorical bridges--all sorts of bridges. At the most basic level, it concerns the bridges that individuals build to understand the events that they experience--the bridges that connect the events in the mind's eye. At another level, it is about bridges that interconnect findings and theoretical frameworks concerning event comprehension and representation in different age groups, ranging from infancy to adulthood. Finally, it is about building bridges between researchers who share interests, yet may not ordinarily even be aware of each other's work. The success of the book will be measured in terms of the extent to which the contributors have been able to create a picture of the course of development across a wide span in chronological age, and across different types of events, from the fictional to the actual. The individuals whose work is represented in this book conduct their work in a shared environment--they all have an intellectual and scholarly interest in event comprehension and representation. These interests are manifest in the overlapping themes of their work. These include a focus on how people come to temporally integrate individual "snapshots" to form a coherent event that unfolds over time, to understand cause and effect, and to appreciate the role of the goal of events. Another overlapping theme involves the possibility of individual differences. These themes are apparent in work on the early development of representations of specific episodes and autobiographical memories, and comprehension of complex events such as stories involving multiple characters and emotions. The editors of this volume had two missions: * to create a development span by bringing together researchers working from infancy to adulthood, and * to create a bridge between individuals working from within the text comprehension perspective, within the naturalistic perspective, and with laboratory analogues to the naturalistic perspective. Their measure of success will be the extent to which they have been able to create a picture of the course of development across a wide span in chronological age, and across different types of events--from fictional to actual.

Author : Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027238995

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Asymmetric Events by Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk Pdf

The book introduces the concept of asymmetric events, an important concept in language and cognition, which, for the first time in linguistic literature, is identified in a more systematic way and analyzed in a number of different languages, including typologically or genetically unrelated ones. Asymmetric events are two or more events of unequal status in an utterance and papers in the volume present ways in which a linguistic description of main events in a sentence is different (morphologically, syntactically, discursively) from a description of backgrounded events. The prototypical asymmetries involving perception, cognition, and language are identified in subordination, nominalization and modification of various kinds but they extend to coordinate structures, serial verbs, spatial language and viewing arrangement, as well as part - whole relations. The perspective is broadly cognitive and functional, the authors use different though complementing methodologies, some include corpus data, and the asymmetries are shown to have a variety of stylistic and ideological implications.An in-depth analysis of manifold asymmetries in structure and function of diverse languages makes this volume of interest to linguists of different persuasion, philosophers, cognitive researchers, discourse analysts and students of language and cognition.

Author : Nancy L. Stein,Peter A. Ornstein,Barbara Tversky,Charles Brainerd
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317759492

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Memory for Everyday and Emotional Events by Nancy L. Stein,Peter A. Ornstein,Barbara Tversky,Charles Brainerd Pdf

The nature of memory for everyday events, and the contexts that can affect it, are controversial topics being investigated by researchers in cognitive, social, clinical, and developmental/lifespan psychology today. This book brings many of these researchers together in an attempt to unpack the contextual and processing variables that play a part in everyday memory, particularly for emotion-laden events. They discuss the mental structures and processes that operate in the formation of memory representations and their later retrieval and interpretation.

Author : P. H. Tannenbaum
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317770398

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The Entertainment Functions of Television by P. H. Tannenbaum Pdf

First published in 1980. This volume is an indirect product of the activities of the Committee on Television and Social Behavior of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). This is a collection of essays looking at the entertainment function of television in the United States.

Author : Juanzi Li,Ming Zhou,Guilin Qi,Ni Lao,Tong Ruan,Jianfeng Du
Publisher : Springer
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789811073595

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Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing. Language, Knowledge, and Intelligence by Juanzi Li,Ming Zhou,Guilin Qi,Ni Lao,Tong Ruan,Jianfeng Du Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing, CCKS 2017, held in Chengdu, China, in August 2017. The 11 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. The papers cover wide research fields including the knowledge graph, the Semantic Web, linked data, NLP, knowledge representation, graph databases.

Author : Mark A. Latino,Robert J. Latino,Kenneth C. Latino
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429822117

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Root Cause Analysis by Mark A. Latino,Robert J. Latino,Kenneth C. Latino Pdf

This book comprehensively outlines what a holistic and effective Root Cause Analysis (RCA) system looks like. From the designing of the support infrastructure to the measuring of effectiveness on the bottom-line, this book provides the blueprint for making it happen. While traditionally RCA is viewed as a reactive tool, the authors will show how it can be applied proactively to prevent failures from occurring in the first place. RCA is a key element of any successful Reliability Engineering initiative. Such initiatives are comprised of equipment, process and human reliability foundations. Human reliability is critical to the success of a true RCA approach. This book explores the anatomy of a failure (undesirable outcome) as well as a potential failure (high risks). Virtually all failures are triggered by errors of omission or commission by human beings. The methodologies described in this book are applicable to any industry because the focus is on the human being's ability to think through why things go wrong, not on the industry or the nature of the failure. This book correlates reliability to safety as well as human performance improvement efforts. The author has provided a healthy balance between theory and practical application, wrapping up with case studies demonstrating bottom-line results. Features Outlines in detail every aspect of an effective RCA ‘system’ Displays appreciation for the role of understanding the physics of a failure as well as the human and system’s contribution Demonstrates the role of RCA in a comprehensive Asset Performance Management (APM) system Explores the correlation between Reliability Engineering and Safety Integrates the concepts of Human Performance Improvement, Learning Teams, and Human Error Reduction approaches into RCA

Author : George Fink
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128011379

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Stress: Concepts, Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior by George Fink Pdf

Stress: Concepts, Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior: Handbook in Stress Series, Volume 1, examines stress and its management in the workplace and is targeted at scientific and clinical researchers in biomedicine, psychology, and some aspects of the social sciences. The audience is appropriate faculty and graduate and undergraduate students interested in stress and its consequences. The format allows access to specific self-contained stress subsections without the need to purchase the whole nine volume Stress handbook series. This makes the publication much more affordable than the previously published four volume Encyclopedia of Stress (Elsevier 2007) in which stress subsections were arranged alphabetically and therefore required purchase of the whole work. This feature will be of special significance for individual scientists and clinicians, as well as laboratories. In this first volume of the series, the primary focus will be on general stress concepts as well as the areas of cognition, emotion, and behavior. Offers chapters with impressive scope, covering topics including the interactions between stress, cognition, emotion and behaviour Features articles carefully selected by eminent stress researchers and prepared by contributors representing outstanding scholarship in the field Includes rich illustrations with explanatory figures and tables Includes boxed call out sections that serve to explain key concepts and methods Allows access to specific self-contained stress subsections without the need to purchase the whole nine volume Stress handbook series

Author : Thomas R. Trabasso,John P. Sabatini,Dominic W. Massaro,Robert Calfee
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135609511

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From Orthography to Pedagogy by Thomas R. Trabasso,John P. Sabatini,Dominic W. Massaro,Robert Calfee Pdf

From Orthography to Pedagogy pays tribute to Richard L. Venezky's work and influence on reading, linguistics, and computer science. This book catalogs findings related to speech and language development, reading and spelling's role in infant speech development, and the present and future advances in the study and theory of speech and cognitive development. The editors focus on the role technology could play in development and advancement of literacy speech and reasoning. Topics include: *speech directed at infants; *speech perception; *cognitive development and spelling; *early reading instruction; *reading and comprehension; and *influences of modern technology and multi-media. Representing a history of study in the field, this book appeals to anyone working in the area of language development, as well as those in related fields such as linguistics and developmental psychology.