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What makes a complement false? Looking at the effects of verbal semantics and perspective in Mandarin children’s interpretation of complement-clause constructions and their false-belief understanding 什么使补语为假?言语语义和视角对普通话儿童补语从句结构的解释及其错误信念理解的影响

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2021-0108

S. Brandt, Honglan Li, A. Chan

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The associative system of early-learned Hebrew verbs and body parts: a comparative study with American English 早期学习希伯来语动词和身体部位的联想系统:与美国英语的比较研究

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2022-0038

J. Maouene, Nitya Sethuraman, Sigal Uziel-Karl, S. Hidaka

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ABB, a salient prototype of collocate–ideophone constructions in Mandarin Chinese ABB，汉语并置-表意结构的一个突出原型

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2022-0031

Thomas Van Hoey

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A network of allostructions: quantified subject constructions in Russian 结构网络：俄语中的量化主体结构

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2021-0117

T. Nesset, L. Janda

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Exposure and emergence in usage-based grammar: computational experiments in 35 languages 基于用法的语法的暴露和出现:35种语言的计算实验

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-09 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2021-0106

Jonathan Dunn

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Speed and space: semantic asymmetries in motion descriptions in Estonian 速度和空间:爱沙尼亚语运动描述中的语义不对称

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-08 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2021-0132

P. Taremaa, Anetta Kopecka

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Exposure and emergence in usage-based grammar: computational experiments in 35 languages 基于用法的语法的暴露和出现：35种语言的计算实验

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.18710/CES0L8

Jonathan Dunn

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Comparing linguistic and cultural explanations for visual search strategies 视觉搜索策略的语言和文化解释比较

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2020-0105

Brent Wolter, Chi Yui Leung, Shaoxin Wang, Shi-Min Chen, J. Yamashita

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Force dynamics as the path to the Spanish subjunctive 力量动力学是通往西班牙语虚拟语气的途径

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-10-17 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2021-0130

Francisco Javier García Yanes

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Assessing the complexity of lectal competence: the register-specificity of the dative alternation after give 评估语言能力的复杂性:给予后替代交替的语域特异性

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-09-22 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2021-0107

Alexandra Engel, Jason Grafmiller, Laura Rosseel, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

引用次数: 4