The advent of usage-/exemplar-based approaches has resulted in a major change in the theoretical landscape of linguistics, but also in the range of methodologies that are brought to bear on the study of language acquisition/learning, structure, and use. In particular, methods from corpus linguistics are now frequently used to study distributional characteristics of linguistics units and what th...

In this paper we investigate possible links between historical linguistics and cognitive science, or theory of the mind. Our primary goal is to demonstrate that historically documented processes of a certain type, i.e. those relating to semantic change and grammaticalization, form a unified theoretical bundle which gives insight into the cognitive processes at work in language organization and ...

It is probably no exaggeration to say that most contemporary grammatical frameworks take perception, thought, and language to be only tangentially, and not directly, related to one another. In the world view of such theories, these three pillars of the human mind constitute quite different types of knowledge and therefore belong, at least in theory, to distinct parts of our meticulously tidy co...

This paper looks at how Computational Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources can be deployed in ComputerAssisted Language Learning (CALL) materials for primary school learners. We draw a broad distinction between CL and NLP technology and briefly review the use of CL/NLP in e-Learning in general, how it has been deployed in CALL to date and specifically in the primary ...

Abstract The theories and methods in corpus linguistics (CL) have had an impact on numerous areas applied linguistics. However, the interface between CL multimodal speech-gesture studies remains underexplored. One fundamental question is whether it possible, even appropriate, to apply paradigms established based textual data data. To explore this, we examine how can assist investigating lexico-...

The Chomskyan revolution in linguistics in the 1950s in essence turned linguistics into a branch of cognitive science (and ultimately biology) by both changing the linguistic landscape and forcing a radical change in cognitive science to accommodate linguistics as many of us conceive of it today. More recently Chomsky has advanced the boldest version of his naturalistic approach to language by ...

1 Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 USA 2 Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA 3 Cognitive Science Program, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA 4 Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 USA 5 Department of Psychology, University of California, ...

In this introductory chapter, Granger traces the development of Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies over the last decades to the present day, focusing on the role of the computer corpus in giving new impetus to each field and bringing them closer together. She discusses the different types of monolingual and multilingual corpora being used in CL and TS research, proposing at the sam...

The aim of this paper is to reconsider certain assumptions about conceptual structure which have become influential in recent Cognitive Science and which are associated in particular with the Cognitive Linguistics research agenda. I will outline three areas within the Cognitive Linguistics theory of concepts which seem to create some difficulties in their present formulation: the 'embodied cogn...