Constructing Meaning: The Role of Affordances and Grammatical Constructions in Sentence Comprehension

By Michael P. Kaschak, Arthur M. Glenberg. 2000

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Grounding language in action (2002, background): “That the sentence form carries meaning can be demonstrated by using innovative denominal verbs—that is, verbs made up anew from nouns (Kaschak & Glenberg, 2000).”
The real-time mediation of visual attention by language and world knowledge: Linking anticipatory (and other) eye movements to linguistic processing (2007, background): “Unlike Gibson, we and others (e.g., Glenberg, 1997; Kaschak & Glenberg, 2000 ) use the term ‘affordance’ to refer to knowledge based on our experience of how we interact with an object, and how that object interacts with other objects (this experience can, of course, include experience of form as w”
Symbol Grounding and Meaning: A Comparison of High-Dimensional and Embodied Theories of Meaning (2000, background): “The third step is to mesh the affordances guided by the syntax of the sentence (Kaschak & Glenberg, 2000).”
Language Comprehenders Mentally Represent the Shapes of Objects (2002, result): “Zwaan, 2001) and those of other recent studies (Fincher-Kiefer, in press; Kaschak & Glenberg, 2000; Kellenbach, Wijers, & Mulder, 2000), support the idea that people activate perceptual symbols of referents during language comprehension (Barsalou, 1999), even when the perceptual characteristics ar”
Activity and Imagined Activity Can Enhance Young Children's Reading Comprehension. (2004, background): “Kaschak and Glenberg (2000) and Glenberg and Kaschak (2002) have provided a detailed account of how syntactic information can be used to guide the mesh of affordances during sentence understanding.2 Three lines of research have provided empirical support for the processes specified by the Indexical…”
The processing of familiar and novel senses of a word: Why reading Dickens is easy but reading Needham can be hard (2007, background): “Other evidence of difficulty comes from work exploring the way in which people interpret novel verbs, such as crutched, that have been derived from nouns (Kaschak & Glenberg, 2000 ; see Clark & Clark, 1979), how novel words are acquired in an adult learning task (Frisson, Sandra, Brisard, & Cuyck”
Grounding conceptual knowledge in modality-specific systems. (2003, background): “Readers similarly understand the functions of novel actions immediately, such as using a crutch to bat a ball [ 27 ].”
Language and action: creating sensible combinations of ideas (2007, background): “Why? The Indexical Hypothesis (Glenberg and Robertson, 1999; 2000; Kaschak and Glenberg, 2000) begins to answer this question.”
Argument Structure in Usage-Based Construction Grammar: Experimental and corpus-based perspectives (2015, background): “For one thing, such principles are needed to explain how speakers are able to use newly coined verbs, for which there is, by definition, no pre-existing lexical information (Clark & Clark, 1979; Kaschak & Glenberg, 2000; Garcìa Velasco, 2009).”
Situated simulation in the human conceptual system (2003, unknown): “Two other recent findings further support simulations in language comprehension (Glenberg & Robertson, 2000; Kaschak & Glenberg, 2000).”