An fMRI examination of the effects of acoustic-phonetic and lexical competition on access to the lexical-semantic network

AbstractOur work is focused on the conceptual description of verbs by employing two main resources – the lexical semantic network WordNet and the conceptual frames from FrameNet. We implement a method for inheritance-based mapping between the two resources by transferring the frame assignments from a hypernym to its hyponyms. We discover that the method performs best for directly related pairs of synsets but deteriorates in assignment at two or more steps. The mapping is then used for enhancing each of the resources by expanding it with new entries and by contributing to the resources’ relational structure.

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Using a Lexical Semantic Network for the Ontology Building

Proceedings - Natural Language Processing in a Deep Learning World ◽

10.26615/978-954-452-056-4_012 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Nadia Bebeshina-Clairet ◽

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Sylvie Despres ◽

Mathieu Lafourcade ◽

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Keyword(s):

Semantic Network ◽

Lexical Semantic ◽

Ontology Building

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Indications of lexical-semantic changes in the Arabisms of the Kingdom of Granada (1493-1612): the lexical competition between almádena and martillo

10.7764/onomazein.51.09 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 83-98

Author(s):

Inmaculada González Sopeña ◽

Keyword(s):

17Th Century ◽

Building Construction ◽

Lexical Competition ◽

Lexical Semantic ◽

Spanish Speaking ◽

15Th Century ◽

Different Types ◽

Arab Origin ◽

Lexical Items

The objective of the present study is to analyze a couple of lexical items formed by an Arabism and a Romance voice (almádena and martillo) through a corpus of documents linked to the ancient Kingdom of Granada (i.e. the current provinces of Málaga, Almería and Granada) in the late 15th century to 17th century. That documentation includes different types of texts as the correspondence of Hernando de Zafra or texts linked to the building construction at that time. Due to the historical, political, social and religious peculiarities of the Kingdom of Granada there is a persistence of lexicon of Arab origin over the above two centuries with regard to other Spanish-speaking territories. However, Arabic loanwords in Spanish lexicon are subjected to specialization processes or semantic restrictions, as exemplified in the case of almádena. This voice lexically competed with the Romance voice martillo, but, finally, the first one suffered a process of semantic restriction and it is actually cornered in some dialectal areas.

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The structure of L2 lexical-semantic networks as seen from a social network perspective

IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching ◽

10.1515/iral-2020-0181 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Xuefang Feng ◽

Jie Liu

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

Social Network Analysis ◽

Network Analysis ◽

Semantic Network ◽

Semantic Networks ◽

Analysis Tool ◽

Semantic Fluency ◽

Efl Learners ◽

Lexical Semantic ◽

Fluency Task

Abstract This study employed a social network analysis tool to investigate the organization of L2 lexical-semantic networks. A total of 49 Chines EFL learners of English completed a semantic fluency task in English. A lexical-semantic network was established on the data collected from the semantic fluency task. We conducted a CONCOR analysis to distinguish the central words from the peripheral ones in the lexical-semantic network. The relevance of three distributional features to the centrality of the words in the L2 lexical-semantic network was examined respectively. In addition, we analyzed the general explanatory effect of each of the three features on centrality. The results based on the distributional features are significantly correlational and report positive explanatory effects. In addition, words of similar distributional features were found to connect in a way that reflects semantic feature effects. Finally, theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical implications of the findings were discussed.

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