The Cognitive Linguistics Reader - Vyvyan Evans
19. Embodied Construction Grammar in Simulation-based Language Understanding
The Cognitive Linguistics Reader - Vyvyan Evans
Benjamin K. Bergen [+]
University of California, San Diego
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Benjamin K. Bergen is Associate Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego. He has published widely in cognitive, computational, neuro-, and psycholinguistics. Topics that his research touches include embodiment in syntax and semantics, linguistic relativism, natural language understanding, and connectionist language modeling.
Nancy Chang
University of California, Berkeley
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This contribution introduces Embodied Construction Grammar which weds together key elements of Cognitive Grammar and construction grammars, by applying the formal rigor of constructional approaches in the context of an embodied theory of language understanding.