Fuzzy semantics comprehension and fuzzy inference are two of the central abilities of human brains that play a crucial role in thinking, perception, and problem solving. A formal methodology for rigorously describing and manipulating fuzzy semantics and fuzzy concepts is sought for bridging the gap between humans and cognitive fuzzy systems. A mathematical model of fuzzy concepts is created bas...

This book presents a comprehensive survey of the various subfields of linguistics, as envisaged from a cognitive grammar perspective. It is divided into two parts; the first half is the ‘‘basic specifications’’: issues related to psycholinguistics, acquisition, language and the brain, and evolution of language. The second part elaborates on the ‘‘building blocks’’ of language, namely words, sen...

1 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 2 Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Neuropsychology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany 3 Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 4 Cognitive Neurobiology and Helmholtz Institute, Departments of Psy...

Introduction . The study analyzes the systemological adequacy of cognitive approach to language and on this basis suggests a method cognitive-systemological interpretation linguistic facts. is in good agreement with functional nature object linguistics. At same time theoretical methodological guidelines linguistics allow us reveal more deeply holistically ontological properties as system phenom...

The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS) brings together 471 brief articles on a very wide range of topics within cognitive science. The general editors worked with advisory editors in six contributing fields, including Gennaro Chierchia on Linguistics and Language and Michael I. Jordan and Stuart Russell on Computational Intelligence. MITECS opens with excellent overview article...

This paper describes a computational model of word segmentation and presents simulation results on realistic acquisition In particular, we explore the capacity and limitations of statistical learning mechanisms that have recently gained prominence in cognitive psychology and linguistics.

The article attempts to present a thorough analyses of concept from the position two linguistic perspectives. notion is shared property and means representation for both linguoculturology cognitive linguistics. viewed as mental representation, fragments human life experience, abstract rational categories shaped in individual’s world picture. Having numerous ways through language units language,...

Anthropology was a founding member of cognitive science (Bender et al., 2010; Gardner, 1985), sharing with other cognitive disciplines a deep interest in thinking and behavior. With its unique expertise in the cultural content, context, and constitution of cognition, it would still be essential to any comprehensive endeavor to explore the human mind (Bloch, 2012), but rather has turned into cog...