The linguistic and conceptual shift in Terminology has led to a more discourse-centered approach with a focus on how terms are used in texts (Temmerman and Kerremans, 2003). This shift has affected the construction of terminological knowledge bases, which have an underlying network of semantic relations. Such a network can be derived from corpus analysis and the extraction of terminological uni...

We use a masked priming procedure to test two accounts of the picture-word interference (PWI) effect: the lexical selection by competition account (Levelt et al., 1999; Roelofs, 1992) and the response selection account (Lupker, 1979; Miozzo and Caramazza, 2003). In the visible (standard) condition, we replicated the often-observed semantic interference effect. In the masked condition, we observ...

Semantic fluency tasks have increasingly been used to probe the structure of human memory, adopting methodologies from the ecological foraging literature to describe memory as a trajectory through semantic space. Clusters of semantically related items are often produced together, and the transitions between these clusters of semantically related items are consistent with theories of optimal for...

With the increasing development of mobile technologies, the learning environment is currently undergoing a major shift. Access to contextual information in a mobile learning environment aims to meet the needs of learning and assessment personalization according to various learners’ profiles and a range of learning contexts. Semantic Web technologies have been applied in recent years with differ...

Through the manipulation of the syntactic cue of word order and the semantic cues of noun animacy and noun size order, this study explores how different cue strength affects a child’s interpretation of a sentence. Subjects included 36 children [Mean age=50.72 mo.; SD=7.3 mo.]. A sentence interpretation test was administered to participants who would choose the “doer” of the sentence. Significan...

Metaphor comprehension involves the generation of novel semantic attributes, especially when a metaphor emphasizes a shared but atypical characteristic of the relevant concepts. The present functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study explores neural activation during the process of attribute generation known as feature emergence. The participants judged whether a presented semantic featu...

this research titeled (semantic change in the quranic words: praise prophet reverence) this study is about how to transform from the meaning to another. in this article we looked lexical and semantic meaning of three words of quran in pre-islamic era until the end of sending quran. we studied the influence of islam in changing word semantically. islam does not bring new words but added them new...

semantic shifting which is one of the most important semantic processes forming the meaning of some linguistic structures was first introduced by safavi (1379). the meaning of different structures such as proverbs, are made by semantic shifting which takes place on the syntagmatic axis, but is shown on the paradigmatic axis. the corpus used in this study consists of 10 persian proverbs which ar...