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Classifiers in competition for categorization 分类竞争中的分类器

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.27

Lin Peng, Sangwook Kang

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Learning speaker-specific linguistic ‘style’ is mediated by deviance from common language use 学习说话人特有的语言“风格”是由对普通语言使用的偏差所介导的

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-07-28 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.32

Nitzan Trainin, E. Shetreet

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Sound-symbolic association between speech sound and spatial meaning in relation to the concepts of up/down and above/below 从上/下和上/下的概念看语音与空间意义之间的声音符号关联

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-07-25 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.31

L. Vainio, Alexandra Wikström, C. Repetto, M. Vainio

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Does reading about fictional minds make us more curious about real ones? 阅读关于虚构人物的文章会让我们对真实人物更加好奇吗？

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-07-24 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.30

L. S. Eekhof, R. Mar

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What counts as a multimodal metaphor and metonymy? Evolution of inter-rater reliability across rounds of annotation 什么是多模态隐喻和转喻?跨轮注释间可靠性的演化

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-07-20 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.26

Paula Pérez Sobrino, Samantha Ford

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The impact of L2 English on choice perception, interpretation, and preference for L1 Arabic speakers 第二语言英语对第一语言阿拉伯语使用者的选择感知、解释和偏好的影响

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-07-19 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.28

Lama AboHamed, Bassil Mashaqba, N. Al-Khawaldeh

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The perceptual span in traditional Chinese 繁体汉语的感知广度

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-07-10 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.24

Jinger Pan, Ming Yan

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Comparing the cognitive load of gesture and action production: a dual-task study 手势和动作产生的认知负荷比较：一项双任务研究

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-07-04 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.23

Autumn B. Hostetter, Sonal Bahl

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A few or several? Construal, quantity, and argumentativity 几个还是几个？结构、数量和辩论性

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.25

Nicole Katzir, Mira Ariel

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Embodiment of color metaphor: an image-based visual analysis of the Chinese color terms hēi ‘black’ and bái ‘white’ 色彩隐喻的具体体现：基于图像的汉语色彩术语“黑”和“白”的视觉分析

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Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2023-06-22 DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.22

Jinmeng Dou, Meichun Liu, Tong Chen

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