What’s in a word? As it turns out, quite a lot. The vast majority of words in our language, including trademarked terms, signify a variety of conceptual meanings and senses. This idea of splintered definition— described in the psycholinguistics literature as “semantic ambiguity” and offered in two flavors: “homonymy” (divergent and unrelated meanings) and “polysemy” (divergent yet related sense...

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As a field of study, gesture has become energized in recent years. There is now an organization (International Society for Gesture Studies) and a journal (GESTURE, Adam Kendon and Cornelia Müller, founding editors). In preparing this article, I have aimed to balance the empirical basics of gestures with a theoretical perspective from which to regard gestures and see what insights they bring to ...

This Special Issue on Connectionist Models of Human Language Processing provides an opportunity for an appraisal both of specific connectionist models and of the status and utility of connectionist models of language in general. This introduction provides the background for the papers in the Special Issue. The development of connectionist models of language is traced, from their intellectual or...

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