Although researchers using parental self-report data have questioned its validity (Holden,
2001) and called for more work in this area (Krevans & Gibbs, 1996; Locke & Prinz, 2002) …

This article reviews research on how people use and understand linguistic expressions of
uncertainty, with a view toward the needs of researchers and others interested in artificial …

A comprehensive overview of an interdisciplinary approach to robotics that takes direct
inspiration from the developmental and learning phenomena observed in children's …

Our research examined effective ways of presenting true descriptive norm information about
sustainable consumption in a realistic online shopping environment, even when the current …

Within cognitive science, two approaches currently dominate the problem of modeling
representations. The symbolic approach views cognition as computation involving symbolic …

A primary goal of contemporary theoretical linguistics is to develop a theory of the
correspondence between sound (or gesture) and meaning. This sound-meaning …

This book presents the theory of polarity sensitivity I have been developing in a number of
publications (1994, 1995, 1996) culminating in my dissertation" The Landscape of Polarity …

Are people rational? This question was central to Greek thought; and has been at the heart
of psychology, philosophy, rational choice in social sciences, and probabilistic approaches …

Semantic Leaps explores how people combine knowledge from different domains in order to
understand and express new ideas. Concentrating on dynamic aspects of on-line meaning …

This thesis is concerned with the description and analysis of two semantically different types
of definite articles in German. While the existence of distinct article paradigms in various …