A5021652762- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
- linguistics and terminology studies
- Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Language and cultural evolution
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Gender Studies in Language
- Color perception and design
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Linguistic research and analysis
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Wine Industry and Tourism
- Lexicography and Language Studies
- Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
University of Oxford
2021-2025
Charles University
2024
University of Auckland
2024
Radboud University Nijmegen
2012-2022
Cardiff University
2022
University of York
2018-2022
Utrecht University
2020
Stockholm University
2020
Karolinska Institutet
2020
University of Bologna
2020
Is there a universal hierarchy of the senses, such that some senses (e.g., vision) are more accessible to consciousness and linguistic description than others smell)? The long-standing presumption in Western thought has been vision audition objective other serving as basis knowledge understanding, whereas touch, taste, smell crude little value. This predicts humans ought be better at communicating about sight hearing decades work based on English related languages certainly suggests this is...
Abstract Ineffability, the degree to which percepts or concepts resist linguistic coding, is a fairly unexplored nook of cognitive science. Although philosophical preoccupations with qualia nonconceptual content certainly touch upon area, there has been little systematic thought and hardly any empirical work in recent years on subject. We argue that ineffability an important domain for sciences. For examining differential across senses may be able tell us things about how mind works,...
When researchers think about the interaction between language and emotion, they typically focus on descriptive emotion words. This review demonstrates that can interact with at many levels of structure, from sound patterns a to its lexicon grammar, beyond how it appears in conversation discourse. Findings are considered diverse subfields across sciences, including cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, linguistic anthropology, analysis. Taken together, is clear emotional expression finely...
To English speakers, the distinctions between blue and green, cup glass, or cut break seem self-evident. The intuition is that these words label categories have an existence independent of language, language merely captures pre-existing categories. But cross-linguistic work shows named are not nearly as self-evident they may feel. There diversity in how languages divide up domains including color, number, plants animals, drinking vessels household containers, body parts, spatial relations,...
Do people who speak different languages think differently, even when they are not using language? To find out, we used nonlinguistic psychophysical tasks to compare mental representations of musical pitch in native speakers Dutch and Farsi. describe pitches as high ( hoog) or low laag), whereas Farsi thin na-zok) thick koloft). Differences language were reflected differences performance on two pitch-reproduction tasks, though the simple, stimuli responses. test whether experience influences...
This special issue of Cognitive Linguistics explores the linguistic encoding events cutting and breaking. In this article we first introduce project on which it is based by motivating selection conceptual domain, presenting methods data collection used all investigators, characterizing language sample. We then present a new approach to examining crosslinguistic similarities differences in semantic categorization. Applying statistical modeling descriptions breaking elicited from speakers...
Abstract To what extent does perceptual language reflect universals of experience and cognition, to is it shaped by particular cultural preoccupations? This paper investigates the universality~relativity examining use basic perception terms in spontaneous conversation across 13 diverse languages cultures. We analyze frequency words test two universalist hypotheses: that sight always a dominant sense, relative ranking senses will be same different find references outstrip other senses,...
ABSTRACTABSTRACTThe cognitive- and neurosciences have supposed that the perceptual world of individual is dominated by vision, followed closely audition, but olfaction merely vestigial. Aslian-speaking communities (Austroasiatic, Malay Peninsula) challenge this view. For Jahai—a small group rainforest foragers—odor plays a central role in both culture language. Jahai ideology revolves around complex set beliefs structures human relationship with supernatural. Central to are hearing,...
People often talk about musical pitch using spatial metaphors. In English, for instance, pitches can be “high” or “low” (i.e., height-pitch association), whereas in other languages, are described as “thin” “thick” thickness-pitch association). According to results from psychophysical studies, metaphors language shape people’s nonlinguistic space-pitch representations. But does establish mappings between space and the first place, it only modify preexisting associations? To find out, we...
Multiple social science disciplines have converged on the senses in recent years, where formerly domain of perception was preserve psychology. Linguistics, or Language, however, seems to an ambivalent role this undertaking. On one hand, Language with a capital L (language as general human capacity) is part problem. It prior focus language (text) that led disregard senses. other it (with small “l,” particular tongue) offers key insights into how peoples conceptualize In article, we argue...
How do we individuate body parts? Here, investigated the effect of segmentation between hand and arm in tactile visual perception. In a first experiment, showed that two stimuli felt farther away when they were applied across wrist than within single part (palm or forearm), indicating "category boundary effect". following experiments, excluded hypotheses, which attributed to other, nontactile factors. Experiment 2, does not arise from motor cues. The was reduced during task involving flexion...
Although the inferior parietal cortex (IPC) has been consistently implicated in mathematical cognition, functional roles of its subdivisions are poorly understood. We address this problem using probabilistic cytoarchitectonic maps IPC intraparietal sulcus (IPS), angular gyrus (AG), and supramarginal gyrus. quantified responses relative to task difficulty individual differences proficiency during mental arithmetic (MA) tasks performed with Arabic (MA-A) Roman (MA-R) numerals. The 2 showed...
People in Western cultures are poor at naming smells and flavors. However, for wine coffee experts, describing flavors is part of their daily routine. So experts better than lay people conveying language? If more easily linguistically expressed by or "codable", then should be novices indeed better, we can also ask how general this advantage is: do show higher codability only they expert (i.e., coffee) linguistic dexterity general? To address these questions, were asked to describe the smell...
People struggle to name odors [1Levinson S.C. Majid A. Differential ineffability and the senses.Mind Lang. 2014; 29: 407-427Crossref Scopus (85) Google Scholar, 2San Roque L. Kendrick K.H. Norcliffe E. Brown P. Defina R. Dingemanse M. Dirksmeyer T. Enfield N.J. Floyd S. Hammond J. et al.Vision verbs dominate in conversation across cultures, but ranking of non-visual varies.Cogn. Linguist. 2015; 26: 31-60Crossref (84) 3Cain W.S. To know with nose: Keys odor identification.Science. 1979; 203:...
Abstract Crosslinguistic studies of expressions motion events have found that Talmy's binary typology verb-framed and satellite-framed languages is reflected in language use. In particular, Manner relatively more elaborated (e.g., narrative, picture description, conversation, translation). The present research builds on previous controlled the domain human by eliciting descriptions a wide range manners walking running filmed natural circumstances. Descriptions were elicited from speakers two...