Substances with modulatory capabilities on certain aspects of human cognition have been
revered as nootropics from the dawn of time. The plant kingdom provides most of the …

This article reviews latent semantic analysis (LSA), a theory of meaning as well as a method
for extracting that meaning from passages of text, based on statistical computations over a …

The Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca, or ELF, as it is more often called,
begins where it ends: by looking back to ELF's earliest days. The very final chapter of the …

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Lecture 3 in this series of Ten Lectures on Diachronic
Construction Grammar. In the last two lectures, I have been reviewing the theoretical …

Evolutionary science has long viewed language as, basically, a fortunate accident—a
crossing of wires that happened to be extraordinarily useful, setting humans apart from other …

Objective The integration of sensory, motor, and cognitive systems is embodied cognition,
according to which mind and body are not separate and distinct, and our body (and our …

The article is about cognitive linguistics and the symbolic and interactive functions of
language are expressed with examples. Language and society, their interrelations are …

Recent research on depression suggests that speech can reveal underlying processes in
the mind of the depressed. This paper systematically reviews the literature on linguistic …

This study investigates the distribution of linguistic and specifically structural diversity in
Northeast Asia (NEA), defined as the region north of the Yellow River and east of the …

Abstract Language development is subject to its interaction and alignment with
environments. However, how it interacts and aligns with environments necessitates further …