Ensuring effective texts for student reading acquisition is a shared goal. This paper
addresses the efficacy of decodable and leveled texts, their word features, and outcomes of …

Regular polysemes are sets of ambiguous words that all share the same relationship
between their meanings, such as CHICKEN and LOBSTER both referring to an animal or its …

Multiple representation theories posit that concepts are represented via a combination of
properties derived from sensorimotor, affective, and linguistic experiences. Recently, it has …

Contemporary theories of semantic representation posit that social experience is an
important source of information for deriving meaning. However, there is a lack of behavioral …

Decoding social environments and engaging meaningfully with other people are critical
aspects of human cognition. Multiple cognitive systems, including social and semantic …

To study linguistically coded concepts, researchers often resort to the Property Listing Task
(PLT). In a PLT, participants are asked to list properties that describe a concept (eg, for DOG …

In the realm of linguistics, the concept of “semanticity” was recently introduced as a novel
measure designed to study linguistic networks. In a given text, semanticity is defined as the …

Distributional models of lexical semantics are capable of acquiring sophisticated
representations of word meanings. The main theoretical insight provided by these models is …

Lexical ambiguity is pervasive among Chinese characters as many of them are
polysemantic, with one orthographic form carrying unrelated meanings, related meanings, or …

Abstract Words, unlike images, are symbolic representations. The associative details
inherent within a word's meaning and the visual imagery it generates, are inextricably …