Publications

Simulation Semantics

Benjamin Bergen. To appear. Experimental methods for simulation semantics. In Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Irene Mittelberg, Seana Coulson, and Michael J. Spivey (eds.) Methods in Cognitive Linguistics: Ithaca.

Benjamin Bergen. To appear. Mental simulation in literal and figurative language. In Seana Coulson and Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (eds.) The Literal/Non-Literal Distinction.

Bergen, Benjamin. 2005. Mental Simulation in Spatial Language Processing. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Bergen, Benjamin and Kathryn Wheeler. 2005. Sentence Understanding Engages Motor Processes. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Tseng, Meylysa and Benjamin Bergen. 2005. Lexical Processing Drives Motor Simulation. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Shweta Narayan, Benjamin Bergen, and Zachary Weinberg. 2004. Embodied Verbal Semantics: Evidence from a Lexical Matching Task. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.

Benjamin Bergen, Shweta Narayan, and Jerome Feldman. 2003. Embodied verbal semantics: evidence from an image-verb matching task. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

Embodied Construction Grammar

Benjamin Bergen and Kim Binsted. In Press. Embodied grammars and linguistic humor. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, 17.

Benjamin Bergen and Nancy Chang. 2005. Embodied Construction Grammar in Simulation-Based Language Understanding. In Jan-Ola Östman and Miriam Fried (Eds.), Construction Grammars: Cognitive grounding and theoretical extensions.

Benjamin Bergen, Nancy Chang, and Shweta Narayan. 2004. Simulated Action in an Embodied Construction Grammar. Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Phonaesthemes

Benjamin Bergen. 2004. The psychological reality of phonaesthemes. Language, 80.

Conceptual Metaphor in language processing

Meylysa Tseng, Yiran Hu, Wen-Wei Han, and Benjamin Bergen. To Appear. "Searching for happiness" or "Full of joy"? Source domain activation matters. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.