Michael Franjieh
Biographic Data
| ID | 1363917 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Franjieh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Franjieh |
| SIGNATURE | FRANJIEH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Surrey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7832-0907 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The language of sand drawing
The practice of sand drawing is found in many different language communities in Vanuatu. The practice and the drawings themselves have both spread throughout the archipelago as part of cultural exchange. This paper looks at the currently available linguistic evidence from the languages of the islands of Pentecost, Ambrym, Paama, Epi, and Malekula to show similarities and differences in the technical terminology used to describe the various elemen…
The emergence of grammatical gender
Systems of grammatical gender are widespread, yet evidence on how these systems emerge is surprisingly scarce. We report on novel research using storyboard experiments in six Oceanic languages of Vanuatu and New Caledonia, to probe the initial stages in the emergence of grammatical gender from possessive classifiers. This would appear to be an unlikely source, yet we can demonstrate the development and investigate it through current experiments. …
Optimal categorisation
The debate as to whether language influences cognition has been long standing but has yielded conflicting findings across domains such as colour and kinship categories. Fewer studies have investigated systems such as nominal classification (gender, classifiers) across different languages to examine the effects of linguistic categorisation on cognition. Effective categorisation needs to be informative to maximise communicative efficiency but also …
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Optimal categorisation
The debate as to whether language influences cognition has been long standing but has yielded conflicting findings across domains such as colour and kinship categories. Fewer studies have investigated systems such as nominal classification (gender, classifiers) across different languages to examine the effects of linguistic categorisation on cognition. Effective categorisation needs to be informative to maximise communicative efficiency but also …
The emergence of grammatical gender
Systems of grammatical gender are widespread, yet evidence on how these systems emerge is surprisingly scarce. We report on novel research using storyboard experiments in six Oceanic languages of Vanuatu and New Caledonia, to probe the initial stages in the emergence of grammatical gender from possessive classifiers. This would appear to be an unlikely source, yet we can demonstrate the development and investigate it through current experiments. …
The language of sand drawing
The practice of sand drawing is found in many different language communities in Vanuatu. The practice and the drawings themselves have both spread throughout the archipelago as part of cultural exchange. This paper looks at the currently available linguistic evidence from the languages of the islands of Pentecost, Ambrym, Paama, Epi, and Malekula to show similarities and differences in the technical terminology used to describe the various elemen…
Categorization, perception, and language (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Ambrym (1 work) · Animal husbandry (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Australian Indigenous Culture and History (1 work) · Card sorting (1 work) · Cognition (1 work) · Cognitive psychology (1 work) · cultural diffusion (1 work)