Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition: "kolper"

• Context:
  superordinate info:
  1. When you are used to a broad view, it is quite depressing when you come to live in a room with one or two kolpers fronting on a courtyard.

     distinguishing info:

  2. He virtually always studied in the library, as at home he had to work by artificial light all day because of those kolpers.

  3. During a heat wave a lot of people all of a sudden want to have kolpers, so the sales of sunblinds then reach a peak.

     counterexamples:

  4. I was afraid the room might have kolpers, but when I went and saw it, it turned out that plenty of sunlight came into it.

  5. In those houses, you're stuck with kolpers all summer, but fortunately once the leaves have fallen off that isn't so any more.
  "official" definition (NB: "kolper" is a made-up word): kolper: a window that transmits little light because of something outside it.
  • van Daalen-Kapteijns, M.M., & Elshout-Mohr, M. (1981), "The Acquisition of Word Meanings as a Cognitive Learning Process", Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 20: 386-399.

• Researchers:
  • Timaporn Chotvinijchai
  • Rahul Krishna
  • Carlos Lollett

• Papers:
  Sentence 1:
  • Chotvinijchai, Timaporn (2004), "Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition: "Kolper" "
    [PDF] [.doc]
    • Comments (not publically accessible)

  • Krishna, Rahul (2004), "Computing the Meaning of "kolper" using SNePS-Based CVA Algorithms"
    [PDF] [.doc]

    Sentence 2:

  • Lollett, Carlos (2004), "Application of Noun Algorithm to the Word "Kolper" "
    [PDF] [.doc]
    • Appendices [PDF] [.doc]:
      1. Syntax and Semantics for non-standard case frames
      2. Script of the running demo
      3. SNePS network Diagrams

    • Comments (not publically accessible)

• Files:
  • Sentence 1:
    • Chotvinijchai's files:
      • rule.pdf
      • rule.doc
      • rule.pdf
      • rule.doc
      • demo file
      • transcript of demo

    • Krishna's files:
      • kolper.demo.1
      • kolper.demo.2
      • script-kolper-1
      • script-kolper-2

  • Sentence 2:
    • demo file
  
  
  

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