Constraining meanings with contextuality

JA de Barros, C Montemayor, LPG De Assis… - Foundations of …, 2024 - Springer
… When discussing contextuality, we will presume that there is a theory of meaning, ie a way
to attribute truth values to an utterance or update information from context to context according …

The contextuality of knowledge: An intentional approach to meaning making and conceptual change

O Halldén, M Scheja, L Haglund - International handbook of …, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
… his critique of constructivist research on children’s counting competencies, by adopting such
a negative perspective on human learning and development we run the risk of constraining

From context to contextualizing

B Van Oers - Learning and instruction, 1998 - Elsevier
… of meanings by constraining the cognitive process of meaning construction, and by eliminating
ambiguities or concurrent meanings … relationship between contextual constraining and …

Accessing lexical ambiguities during sentence comprehension: Effects of frequency of meaning and contextual bias

W Onifer, DA Swinney - Memory & Cognition, 1981 - Springer
… In the other sentence, the context constrained the meaning to the word's secondary
meaning. The ambiguous word was used as the same part of speech (with one exception) and …

[PDF][PDF] Applying contextual constraints in sentence comprehension

MF St John, JL McClelland - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of …, 1988 - escholarship.org
… two verb meanings, three had two noun meanings, and two had a verb and a noun meaning.
Six of … Depending upon the sentence, however, the context may only partially constrain the …

[图书][B] Speaking from elsewhere: A new contextualist perspective on meaning, identity, and discursive agency

J Medina - 2007 - books.google.com
… It is important to note that the techniques of use that render a meaning contextually … So,
according to the pragmatic contextualism developed in this section, meaning is constrained but …

[图书][B] Contextual constraints on sentence comprehension

S Crain - 1980 - search.proquest.com
… this fashion demonstrates their function in constraining semantic interpretation. This kind of
… our ideas about the young child's syntax, meaning, and the relation between them are all …

Learning and applying contextual constraints in sentence comprehension

MFS John, JL McClelland - Artificial intelligence, 1990 - Elsevier
meanings and to instantiate vague terms in contextually … that constrain the overall event
description, rather than as treating each constituent as a lexical item with a particular meaning. …

Automatic access of the meanings of ambiguous words in context: Some limitations of knowledge-based processing

MS Seidenberg, MK Tanenhaus, JM Leiman… - Cognitive …, 1982 - Elsevier
… does not constrain lexical access, but rather permits the rapid selection of one meaning when
… Our experimental results suggest that accessing meaning in a contextually noncontingent …

Modelling parsing constraints with high-dimensional context space

CBK Lund - Language and cognitive processes, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
… In brief, we will argue that this measure of contextuality can … Given that words with similar
meanings tended to be close to … context distances than the less constraining items (eg soup …