The question of how meaning might be acquired by young children and represented by adult speakers of a language is one of the most debated topics in cognitive science. Existing semantic representation models are primarily amodal based on information provided by the linguistic input despite ample evidence indicating that the cognitive system is also sensitive to perceptual information. In this w...

The central role of the lexicon in Meaning-Text Theory (MTT) and other dependency-based linguistic theories cannot be replicated in linguistic theories based on context-free grammars (CFGs). We describe Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) as a system that arises naturally in the process of lexicalizing CFGs. A TAG grammar can therefore be compared directly to an Meaning-Text Model (MTM). We illustrate...

The problem of determining intended meaning is a key topic in the study of linguistic processes. This paper is part of a research that attempts to answer the question: how do agents involved in a linguistic controversy determine the intended meaning of a sentence? The main thesis of the research is that the determination of meaning is driven by agents’ situational interests. The process is anal...

This paper discusses linguistic annotation issues, essential to a corpus-based approach to modelling the language use of foreign language learners in various contexts. We focus on learners of English and describe the corpora we use as well as the linguistic approach underlying their development. We present a scheme for describing grammatical choices and meaning components expressed in texts pro...

Abstract The social categories that characterize a speaker frequently correlate with the use of specific linguistic variables. Research suggests such correlations are sometimes recognized as socially-indexed meanings. This study examines Japanese individuals’ attitudes toward variables have been shown to category gender in production. In particular, we contrast patterns gendered variation (i) p...

This paper introduces conceptual framework of an ontology for describing linguistic services on network-based language infrastructures. The ontology defines a taxonomy of processing resources and the associated static language resources. It also develops a sub-ontology for abstract linguistic objects such as expression, meaning, and description; these help define functionalities of a linguistic...