In this paper we investigate a hypothesized cognitive bias for isomorphic mappings between conceptual structure and linear order in the noun phrase. This bias has been proposed as a possible explanation for a striking asymmetry in the typology of the noun phrase–linear orders which place the adjective closest to the noun, then the numeral, then the demonstrative, are over-represented in the wor...

this paper examines th e styl e of sale h hosseini a s a literary translator in his p ersian translation of f aulkner 's the sound and the fury in the light of baker 's universals of translation . first , the paper discusses why in the field of translation the translator 's style seems to be less important than that of the original writer . the paradoxical issue is that if the wr...

Abstract. The authors of the article present idea an anthroposocioecological approach in philosophical anthropology and philosophy civilizational processes, working on approved state budget research topic “Anthroposocioecological configurations modern XXI century”. Attracting scientific thought academician V.S. Stepin, who identified such major global crises technogenic civilization as ecologic...

This article offers a critique of the notion “universals” in cross-cultural studies on music and emotions based empirical observations philosophical arguments. The material comes from experiments with songs evoking animals belonging to Indigenous Sámi “yoik” tradition. Participants Belgian Ardenne untrained yoik ( N = 114, age 4–79) listened recordings tried guess which animal was evoked. While...

The debate over language and thought has traditionally been framed by two opposing stances: „universalist‟ and „relativist‟. The universalist view holds that language is shaped by universals of human cognition; on this view, languages make semantic distinctions drawn from a limited palette of universally available options – and when languages do differ semantically, those linguistic differences...

The paper presents a statistical evaluation of the typological data about color naming systems across the languages of the world that have been obtained by the World Color Survey. In a first step, we discuss a principal component analysis of the categorization data. This leads to a small set of easily interpretable features that are dominant in color categorization. These features were used for...

It is often believed that the only alternative to an idealist conception of natural phenomena excludes both presence objective universal forms and their progression towards higher as finality processes in world. Realism regarding teleological approaches are signs idealism. Therefore, materialism, it would seem, must conform a nominalist mechanical view nature. However, intelligent materialist r...

The functional approach to typology often appeals to processing pressures in order to explain universals. This paper examines a case where the match between a processing asymmetry and a typological asymmetry is not one-to-one — a case where the functional approach appears to fail. For a particular typology of relative clauses, the psycholinguistic literature suggests two asymmetries: accessibil...

Contemporary research on emotions has been increasingly demarcated into four self-contained segments: the cultural, biological, inner, and outer aspects of emotional processes. A parallel trend is the increasing hegemony of the perspective of those who study only the cultural and outside segments. Research on cultural variation, the causation of emotional states, and cultural universals is revi...

Human languages vary in many ways, but also show striking cross-linguistic universals. Why do these universals exist? Recent theoretical results demonstrate that Bayesian learners transmitting language to each other through iterated learning will converge on a distribution of languages that depends only on their prior biases about language and the quantity of data transmitted at each point; the...