We present a system to comprehend natural language that combines cognitive linguistics with known properties of human language processing. It is built on Embodied Construction Grammar (ECG) and the Soar cognitive architecture. Its core is a novel grounded semantic parser. Experiments show the system produces actionable meanings and fulfills ten cognitive criteria we set out.

geographical relations and land areas. This projection is based on a very basic kinesthetic image-schematic structure. An image schema is a simple structure which is ingrained in everyday human bodily experience and becomes meaningful precisely due to its embodiment. In our example, the kinesthetic image-schematic structure is the Mikołaj Domaradzki 46 container schema: since many a thing can b...

Clinical linguistic diversity extends far beyond ‘specific language’ disorders, such as acquired aphasia or specific language impairment (SLI), to a large range of mental disorders that are not language-specific. As cognitive impairments involved in the latter, models with an integrated approach and cognition can be useful for understanding classifying variation question. The aim this paper is ...

Following Desagulier (2005), I assume that it is by studying intermediate forms that we can gain a better understanding of creativity and innovation, from both a linguistic and a cognitive perspective. My case studies tend to show that form/function reshuffling is best understood as a grammatical blend, for which I offer a new definition, based on a critical examination of works by Fauconnier a...

For me, this is an exciting time to be a cognitive scientist and a cognitive linguist. Cognitive Linguistics has developed rapidly and with enormous success over the past two decades, providing a cognitively based account of language. When results in cognitive linguistics are taken together with results in the other cognitive sciences, a radically new view of the mind and language—and their rel...

A theory frames how we view a subject and how we expect to research it; grammatical theories are no exceptions. A given theoretical frame will allow us, or occasionally force us, to see certain aspects of a discipline in a certain way while preventing us from seeing other aspects that an alternative theory might naturally bring into view. In this regard, theorists are like tourguides who point ...

The Baysian Iterated Learning approach to language is consistent with generative grammar, but needs to be supplemented with specific cognitive constraints for empirical adequacy.

This study attempted to determine the grammar learning strategy and grammatical competence level of 2nd year 3rd pre-service teachers. Additionally, this aimed investigate relationship between their usage level. To end, employed descriptive-correlational research method. Data were collected through a questionnaire facilitated in Google Forms. The study's results revealed that, first, teachers h...

Generative grammar retained from American structural linguistics the ‘formal’ approach, which basically effaces the semantic and pragmatic dimensions of grammar. This creates serious problems for an account of language acquisition, most especially the problem of how to link universal grammar to some particular language (the linking problem). Parameters do not help the situation, as they depend ...