The French Lexical Network (fr-LN) is a global model of the French lexicon presently under construction. The fr-LN accounts for lexical knowledge as a lexical network structured by paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations holding between lexical units. This paper describes how morphological knowledge is presently being introduced into the fr-LN through the implementation and lexicographic exploit...

This paper proposes a research agenda and tool development methodology to support software code inspections. Recent research suggests promise and opportunity for a practical, people-oriented, and cognitively-based code inspection research approach. To provide theoretical and practical foundations, this paper identifies research assumptions, pitfalls, and potentials. The paper also proposes a th...

Reddy argues that hearers understand the sentence in (1) by inferring that ideas are expressed in words, printed on pages within books, which are found in libraries. More recently, several studies have taken up Reddy’s observation (Nerlich and Clarke 2001, Geeraerts 2002, Ruiz de Mendoza and Diéz 2002, Barcelona 2003), showing its continuing relevance for cognitive linguistics. While these stud...

Attributional retraining (AR) is a motivational intervention that consistently produces improved performance by encouraging controllable failure attributions. Research suggests that cognitively engaging AR methods are ideal for high-elaborating students, whereas affect-oriented techniques are better for low-elaborating students. College students' (N=749) elaborative learning was assessed in the...

Researchers in typological and functional approaches to language have argued that the cross-linguistic properties of nominalizations follow from the univeral semantic properties of syntactic categories. Specifically, nouns denote objects and verbs denote actions in the prototypical case. In this paper I argue that this prototypical association of semantic type with syntactic category can be rep...

To function effectively, individuals must voluntarily postpone immediate gratification and persist in goal-directed behavior for the sake of later outcomes. The present research program analyzed the nature of this type of future-oriented self-control and the psychological processes that underlie it. Enduring individual differences in self-control were found as early as the preschool years. Thos...

Comparative work on human spatial cognition contrasts systems of calculating position and trajectory that involve body-relative reckoning frequently where the body in question is that of an egocentric observer with systems which rely on global coordinates such as compass directions not relative to the positions and orientations of moveable entities. I consider here a case from a Tzotzil speaker...

People evaluate themselves more positively than they evaluate most other people. Although this better than average (BTA) effect was originally thought to represent a motivated bias, several cognitively oriented theorists have questioned whether this is the case. In support of a motivational model, the author reports five studies showing that the BTA effect is stronger for important attributes t...

Questions about the suitability of cognitively-oriented instructional approaches for students of different academic levels are frequently raised by teachers and researchers. This study examined student participation in knowledge-building discourse in two implementations of a short inquiry unit focusing on environmental problems. Participants in each implementation consisted of students taking a...