Instrument inferences and verb schemata

Monotonic Paradigmatic Schemata in Italian Verb Inflection

Image-Schemata-Based Spatial Inferences: The Container-Surface Algebra

Algebras over spatial relations have become an important aspect of spatial reasoning for retrieving and handling large and complex spatial data sets. While such spatial relations play a fundamental role in specifying constraints in a spatial query language, there has been little concern as to whether existing spatial-relation algebras are cognitively plausible. In order to construct more intuit...

Verb Use in Chinese Children: Extensibility of Instrument

The goal of this study is to investigate 5and 7-year-old‟s (N = 48) willingness to extend a common verb to an action event incorporating an unusual instrument. Instrument specificity is defined as the number of instrument adult native speakers can identify within an experimental task setting. Six target verbs were chosen and grouped into two groups of verbs, Specified and Open, by their instrum...

Spatial Schemata and Language

If we want to understand how semantic information is represented and processed, there are two possible paths to take. The first, and the most common, is to study the intricacies of language and try to infer the underlying mechanisms. The second approach is to investigate language from inside out by questioning how semantic structure is represented without reference to language. Only when the se...

Architectural Schemata

We address the problem of software invisibility and seek means to improve the comprehensibility of software. Architectural schemata are defined as visual “roadmaps” to the design of object oriented programs and construed in a formal language. We present LePUS Schemata, a formal language whose expressions convey architectural configurations and demonstrate its use in documenting the design, arch...