Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, School of: Recent submissions
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Sentence processing in first language attrition: the interplay of language, experience and cognitive load
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-12-22)In a bilingual mind, two languages frequently interact with each other during language comprehension and production. Both languages stay active, and bilingual speakers must resolve interferences from the unwanted language, ... -
Economic attitudes and individual difference: replication and extension
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-12-16)The work presented in this dissertation primarily focused on two topics. The first was understanding differences in support for redistribution. In this section, we replicated existing research on the three-player two-situation ... -
Mindful love: the role of mindfulness in willingness to sacrifice in romantic relationships
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-12-05)INTRODUCTION: The well-being of romantic relationships often depends on the degree to which partners are able to sacrifice their own interests to meet each other’s needs when necessary. While enacted sacrifices are not ... -
Embodied metacognition: how we feel our hearts to know our minds
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-11-23)The aim of the present work is to make a plausible case for the phylogenetic origin of self-knowledge, one which is compatible with a prevalent view about its ontogenetic origin, the social-scaffolding view. Essentially, ... -
Relation learning and reasoning on computational models of high level cognition
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-11-18)Relational reasoning is central to many cognitive processes, ranging from “lower” processes like object recognition to “higher” processes such as analogy-making and sequential decision-making. The first chapter of this ... -
Symbolic-connectionist model of relation learning and visual reasoning
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-11-17)Humans regularly reason from visual information, engaging in simple object search in a scene to abstract mathematical thinking. In recent decades, the field of machine learning has extensively focused on visual tasks ... -
Choosing to presuppose: strategic uses of presupposition triggers
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-11-15)This PhD project investigates the discourse structuring and managing properties of presupposition triggers. Specifically, the thesis is a theoretical and experimental investigation of what motivates speakers to presuppose ... -
Understanding long-term forgetting in the healthy and clinical population: evidence from different research paradigms and methods
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-10-20)Memory and forgetting are closely related, yet cognitive research has neglected the topic of long-term forgetting, leaving several questions unanswered. From a theoretical point of view, understanding the dynamics of ... -
Mechanisms underlying pre-school children’s syntactic, morphophonological and referential processing during language production
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-10-17)Much work has focused on how children learn the words and grammar of their language, with the emphasis being on how children learn to understand their native language. Little work has actually considered how children learn ... -
Longitudinal depression trajectories: the persistence of depression symptomology and their genetic & environmental underpinnings from mid- to later-life
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-10-04)The work contained within this thesis primarily focused on estimating depression symptom score trajectories in mid- to late-life. There has been little consistency in the literature concerning such phenotypic trajectories, ... -
Temporal structure of the world
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-09-06)The thesis starts from the position of Ontic Structural Realism, which holds that the world just is structure, and from the ontology of Rainforest Realism in which the only things that exist are (Dennettian) real ... -
Development and processing of non-canonical word orders in Mandarin-speaking children
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-09-06)BACKGROUND: Cross-linguistically, syntactic structures bearing a word order different than the basic (canonical) word order in the specific language, i.e., non-canonical structures, have been shown to be more difficult ... -
Decision-making and memory: an investigation on the recollection of a moral dilemma
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-09-06)Individuals inevitably face situations where they have to choose between several options with uncertain future outcomes. This decision-making process can occur in various contexts such as getting the COVID vaccine, ... -
Role of transparency in the acquisition of inflectional morphology: experimental studies testing exponence type using artificial language learning
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-08-09)Agglutinating morphology has often been described as easier to learn than fusional morphology, in large part because it is more transparent (e.g., Brown, 1976; Goldschneider & DeKeyser, 2001; Igartua, 2015). Such claims ... -
Reporting racism in the public domain
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-29)Semantic parsing is the task of translating natural language utterances onto machineinterpretable programs, which can be executed against a real-world environment to obtain desired responses (e.g., a SQL query against a ... -
Every body’s gotta eat: why autonomous systems can’t live on prediction-error minimization alone
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-29)Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle has been proposed as a definition of existence from which “everything of interest about life and the universe can be derived” (Friston, 2019, p.176). Despite pretensions to a theory of ... -
Bilingual encoding strategies during the production of motion event utterances
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-28)When describing motion events, English speakers tend to encode the manner of motion in the verb (e.g., A penguin is skiing into an igloo), whereas Spanish speakers tend to express the path or trajectory of motion in the ... -
Radical pluralist theory of well-being: towards a new pluralist conception of welfare
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-28)The philosophy of well-being has generally assumed that only a weak form of pluralism could be true about prudential value: one which posits a plurality of constituents of well-being. The main exponent of theories ... -
Rate of forgetting is independent from initial degree of learning
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-28)Research on forgetting has extensively explored factors that modify the rate at which information is forgotten. However, the question of whether initial degree of retention influences the rates of forgetting has been ... -
Disability and sociophonetic variation among deaf or hard-of-hearing speakers of Taiwan Mandarin
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-16)Variationist sociolinguistics has not paid much attention to linguistically pathologised groups. This thesis studies pathologised speech from a third-wave variationist perspective, exploring how oral deaf or hard-of-hearing ...
