We propose a novel dynamical system approach to cognitive linguistics based on cellular automata and spiking neural networks. How can the same relationship 'in' apply to containers as different as 'box', 'tree' or 'bowl'? Our objective is to categorize the infinite diversity of schematic visual scenes into a small set of grammatical elements and elucidate the topology of language. Gestalt-inspi...

This study examines how reference to spatial boundaries can make speakers of English represent or understand a motion event as temporally bounded. Spatial boundaries can be implied by (a) the path expressed by a directional item, (b) the so-called ―landmark‖ (Langacker, 1987) serving as ̳support‘ for the path, and (c) the moving entity. Importantly, one and the same entity in the real world can...

The last years have seen an explosion of work on the integration of vision and language data. New tasks like Image Captioning and Visual Questions Answering have been proposed and impressive results have been achieved. There is now a shared desire to gain an in-depth understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of those models. To this end, several datasets have been proposed to try and challe...

This study investigated the effect of applying the dynamic system theory (DST) and cognitive linguistics (CL) insights into grammar instruction on EFL learners’ learning of English prepositions and learner autonomy. Sixty Iranian EFL learners at the lower-intermediate level of language proficiency were randomly assigned to 1 experimental and 1 control group. The 2 groups filled out an autonomy ...

The paper examines locative expressions and shows that on adequate account of their meaning must be based on two essential understandings: First, the simple spatial relation, often given OS the meaning of the spatial prepositions, is only an “ideal” from which there ore deviations in context: second, a level of “geometric conceptualization” mediates between “the world OS it is” and longuoge. Pr...

Polysemy is one of the complex semantic phenomena that have been tackled by many scholars from different points view. Different models suggested about how polysemous words are represented in mental lexicon. One these sophisticated proposed Tyler and Evans (2003). It seems this model has some problems paper directed to solve. The based on two questions: (1) what main aspects network meanings reg...

Verbs in Arabic Language are used with specific prepositions; each preposition is called sila for the verb it precedes to. There different opinions of Qur’ānic exaggerators, commentators and rest scholars towards these prepositions when comes along non-dedicated language. Is originated or replaced other one, if not replaced, then, what does mean there? Sometimes many them term. two major parts ...

Prepositions are highly polysemous, and their variegated senses encode significant semantic information. In this paper we match each preposition’s complement and attachment and their interplay crucially to the geometry of the word vectors to the left and right of the preposition. Extracting such features from the vast number of instances of each preposition and clustering them makes for an effi...

This system translates basic English descriptions of a wide range of objects in a simplistic zoo environment into plausible, three-dimensional, interactive visualizations of their positions, orientations, and dimensions. It combines a semantic network and contextually sensitive knowledge base as representations for explicit and implicit spatial knowledge, respectively. Its linguistic aspects ad...