How does language inform our downstream thinking? In particular, how do humans make
meaning from language--and how can we leverage a theory of linguistic meaning to build …

The goal of this article is to make the case for a radical exemplar account of child language
acquisition, under which unwitnessed forms are produced and comprehended by on-the-fly …

This article lies within the field of applied cognitive linguistics (ACL) and presents empirical
work that addresses overlooked effects of assessment typology in second language (L2) …

Prominent accounts of folk theory of mind posit that people judge others' mental states to be
uncontrollable, unintentional, or otherwise involuntary. Yet, this claim has little empirical …

To understand a simple sentence such as “the woman chased the dog”, the human mind
must dynamically organize the relevant concepts to represent who did what to whom. This …

This article investigates the acquisition of psych verbs in diachrony by applying Yang's
(2016) Tolerance and Sufficiency principles. It has been observed that psych verbs change …

To explain the phenomenon that certain English verbs resist passivization (eg,*£ 5 was cost
by the book), Pinker (1989) proposed a semantic constraint on the passive in the adult …

One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent
moves from one position in a sentence to another position. Syntactic theory has long been …

This thesis is concerned with German psychological verbs, ie verbs characterized by the fact
that one of their arguments is associated with a psychological process. These psych verbs …

It is well-known that derivational affixes can be highly polysemous, producing a range of
different, often related, meanings. For example, English deverbal nouns with the suffix-er …