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Embodied Processing at Six Linguistic Granularity Levels: A Consensus Paper

Language processing is influenced by sensorimotor experiences. Here, we review behavioral evidence for embodied and grounded influences in language processing across six linguistic levels of granularity. We examine (a) sub-word features, discussing grounded influences on iconicity (systematic associ...

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Autores principales: Körner, Anita, Castillo, Mauricio, Drijvers, Linda, Fischer, Martin H., Günther, Fritz, Marelli, Marco, Platonova, Olesia, Rinaldi, Luca, Shaki, Samuel, Trujillo, James P., Tsaregorodtseva, Oksana, Glenberg, Arthur M.
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Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10573585/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37841668
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/joc.231
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author Körner, Anita
Castillo, Mauricio
Drijvers, Linda
Fischer, Martin H.
Günther, Fritz
Marelli, Marco
Platonova, Olesia
Rinaldi, Luca
Shaki, Samuel
Trujillo, James P.
Tsaregorodtseva, Oksana
Glenberg, Arthur M.
author_facet Körner, Anita
Castillo, Mauricio
Drijvers, Linda
Fischer, Martin H.
Günther, Fritz
Marelli, Marco
Platonova, Olesia
Rinaldi, Luca
Shaki, Samuel
Trujillo, James P.
Tsaregorodtseva, Oksana
Glenberg, Arthur M.
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description Language processing is influenced by sensorimotor experiences. Here, we review behavioral evidence for embodied and grounded influences in language processing across six linguistic levels of granularity. We examine (a) sub-word features, discussing grounded influences on iconicity (systematic associations between word form and meaning); (b) words, discussing boundary conditions and generalizations for the simulation of color, sensory modality, and spatial position; (c) sentences, discussing boundary conditions and applications of action direction simulation; (d) texts, discussing how the teaching of simulation can improve comprehension in beginning readers; (e) conversations, discussing how multi-modal cues improve turn taking and alignment; and (f) text corpora, discussing how distributional semantic models can reveal how grounded and embodied knowledge is encoded in texts. These approaches are converging on a convincing account of the psychology of language, but at the same time, there are important criticisms of the embodied approach and of specific experimental paradigms. The surest way forward requires the adoption of a wide array of scientific methods. By providing complimentary evidence, a combination of multiple methods on various levels of granularity can help us gain a more complete understanding of the role of embodiment and grounding in language processing.
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spelling pubmed-105735852023-10-14 Embodied Processing at Six Linguistic Granularity Levels: A Consensus Paper Körner, Anita Castillo, Mauricio Drijvers, Linda Fischer, Martin H. Günther, Fritz Marelli, Marco Platonova, Olesia Rinaldi, Luca Shaki, Samuel Trujillo, James P. Tsaregorodtseva, Oksana Glenberg, Arthur M. J Cogn Review Article Language processing is influenced by sensorimotor experiences. Here, we review behavioral evidence for embodied and grounded influences in language processing across six linguistic levels of granularity. We examine (a) sub-word features, discussing grounded influences on iconicity (systematic associations between word form and meaning); (b) words, discussing boundary conditions and generalizations for the simulation of color, sensory modality, and spatial position; (c) sentences, discussing boundary conditions and applications of action direction simulation; (d) texts, discussing how the teaching of simulation can improve comprehension in beginning readers; (e) conversations, discussing how multi-modal cues improve turn taking and alignment; and (f) text corpora, discussing how distributional semantic models can reveal how grounded and embodied knowledge is encoded in texts. These approaches are converging on a convincing account of the psychology of language, but at the same time, there are important criticisms of the embodied approach and of specific experimental paradigms. The surest way forward requires the adoption of a wide array of scientific methods. By providing complimentary evidence, a combination of multiple methods on various levels of granularity can help us gain a more complete understanding of the role of embodiment and grounding in language processing. Ubiquity Press 2023-10-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10573585/ /pubmed/37841668 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/joc.231 Text en Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Rinaldi, Luca
Shaki, Samuel
Trujillo, James P.
Tsaregorodtseva, Oksana
Glenberg, Arthur M.
Embodied Processing at Six Linguistic Granularity Levels: A Consensus Paper
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