John R Taylor

Biographic Data

ID3820608
NAMEJohn R Taylor
GIVEN NAMESJohn R
FAMILY NAMETaylor
SIGNATURETAYLOR J R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of the Witwatersrand
ORCID0000-0002-4435-0657
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS46
TOTAL CITATIONS74
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT11
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Perceiving uncertainty

    Open AccessJohn R Taylor, Stafford van Putten et al.ARTICLEBehaviour and Information…2026

    Human decision-making during autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) operations is fundamentally shaped by uncertainty in environmental information. This exploratory pilot study investigates how during path planning, task dynamics can influence operator performance and risk tolerance, relative to a 2D visualisation of bathymetric data uncertainty. Using bathymetric data obtained from field trials of prototype AUVs, we visualise uncertainty in these d…

  • Seaweed blue carbon

    Open AccessRod Fujita, Simona Augyte et al.ARTICLEMarine Policy2023

  • Going online

    Open AccessJennifer Macritchie, Agnieszka Chmiel et al.ARTICLEMusicae Scientiae2023

    As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many cultural and artistic programs for older adults have been put on hold, despite the numerous physical, social, and emotional well-being benefits continued participation may bring. This article details a cross-section of participants ( n = 13) in the Active Minds Music Ensemble—a longitudinal Australian-based research project that provides 12 months of group music instrument lessons to healthy older adult …

  • Ammri

    Roger T Dean, Agnieszka Chmiel et al.ARTICLEJournal of New Music Research2022

    We present computational analyses of musical performances during 12-months study by novice participants aged 65–80. They learned two instruments (an electronic piano keyboard; the iPad app ThumbJam) each with two distinct approaches: replication by ear of melodies, and improvisation using specified methods. Here we present computational simulations and analyses of such processes and the corresponding R script. Using MIDI recordings from one parti…

  • The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

    Xu Wen, John R TaylorBOOKRoutledge Handbook of Cognitive…2021

  • Exploring the sociomaterial dynamics of home food gardening in a Black-majority, low-income neighbourhood in Chicago, IL, U.S.A

    John Taylor, John R Taylor et al.ARTICLELocal Environment2021

    Appreciation for the contributions of urban home food gardens to social-ecological resilience, food security, and human health is growing, most recently as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the precarities it has laid bare in the food system. In this study, we used actor-network theory as a guiding sensibility to explore the sociomaterial dynamics of urban home food gardens in a low-income, Black-majority neighbourhood on Chicago’s south side…

  • Influence of a continuous affect ratings task on listening time for unfamiliar art music

    John R Taylor, Roger T DeanARTICLEJournal of New Music Research2021

    We aim to increase user engagement in unfamiliar music. We investigated listening duration for 100 unfamiliar art music items from the Australian Music Centre (AMC) library, presented under four different exposure conditions: a continuous affect response task, text/photographic information, text only, and no information. Participants could skip each item, and provided post-excerpt liking or familiarity ratings. Time-series analysis models of list…

  • The Language of Touch

    Marcello Giovanelli, Louise Nuttall et al.BOOKThe Language of Touch2019

    Offering an in-depth analysis of the relationship between touch and language through the history of philosophy, this book revitalizes the field of haptic studies, providing new insights into the philosophy of language and ontological nature of touch. The Language of Touch draws together an international team of linguists, anthropologists, and philosophers to demonstrate from a variety of disciplinary perspectives that the experience of touch is i…

  • Oxford Handbook of the Word

    John R TaylorBOOKOxford Handbook of the Word2017

  • Prototype Theory in Linguistics

    Open AccessJohn R TaylorCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Names

    John Anderson, John R TaylorBOOKPersonal Names2015

    There has been much debate concerning the meaning of (proper) names, and particularly the names of persons, and particularly whether they are to be attributed with sense. But there has been almost a consensus that grammatically names are a sub-type of noun: they are ‘proper’ vs. ‘common nouns’. Examination of the grammar of names reveals a rather more complex situation. In the first place, names do not have a uniform grammar, as revealed by their…

  • Place and Other Names

    Carole Hough, John R TaylorBOOKPersonal Names2015

  • Nicknames

    Robert Kennedy, John R TaylorBOOKPersonal Names2015

  • Choosing a Name

    Cynthia Whissell, John R TaylorBOOKPersonal Names2015

  • Personal Names

    Benjamin Blount, John R TaylorBOOKPersonal Names2015

    All societies assign at least one personal name to all of its members. Two distinct personal naming systems have existed historically, however: one in foraging societies in which all individuals have single, unique names, and one in more complex societies in which multiple names are assigned. In the latter, each name serves a different role. One name, the ‘given’ name, individuates its bearers, to distinguish them from other members of society an…

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Word

    John R TaylorBOOKPersonal Names2015

    The identification of what words are is central to grammatical theorizing: without a theory of the word, it is impossible to establish what it is that syntax combines and what semantics composes the meanings of. But there is a substantial degree of theoretical debate about where the boundaries of words are and how the relationship between syntax and morphology should be understood. This chapter addresses that literature by exploring a case of inf…

  • The Prosodic Word

    Kristine A Hildebrandt, John R TaylorBOOKOxford Handbook of the Word2015

    This handbook addresses words in all their multifarious aspects and brings together scholars from every relevant discipline to do so. The many subjects covered include word frequencies; sounds and sound symbolism; the structure of words; taboo words; lexical borrowing; words in dictionaries and thesauri; word origins and change; place and personal names; nicknames; taxonomies; word acquisition and bilingualism; words in the mind; word disorders; …

  • Supplying urban ecosystem services through multifunctional green infrastructure in the United States

    Open AccessSarah Taylor Lovell, John Taylor et al.ARTICLELandscape Ecology2013

  • Urban home food gardens in the Global North

    Open AccessJohn Taylor, John R Taylor et al.ARTICLEAgriculture and Human Values2013Cited by: 40References: 29

  • Mapping public and private spaces of urban agriculture in Chicago through the analysis of high-resolution aerial images in Google Earth

    Open AccessJohn Taylor, John R Taylor et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2012

  • The e-portfolio continuum

    Open AccessJohn Taylor, John R Taylor et al.ARTICLEAustralasian Journal of…2012

    This article presents the results of audit data compiled from a case study introducing e-portfolios into a Music Education degree program, and highlights the key challenges faced from the initial stages of student use to curricular embedding and student adoption. This article discusses the technological, social and educational impacts inherent in a student’s adoption of e-portfolios within a degree program, and critically, shows how training for …

  • How many meanings does a word have

    Open AccessJohn R TaylorARTICLEStellenbosch Papers in Linguistics2012

    In order to fully understand what a person says to you, you need to activate many kinds of knowledge and ability. One requirement for comprehension is knowledge of the meanings of the words of which an utterance is composed. Suppose someone asks you to "open the window". Your understanding of the expression open the window requires - amongst other things - that you know the meaning of the verb open and the meaning of the noun window. You identify…

  • Possessives and relevance

    Open AccessJohn R TaylorARTICLEStellenbosch Papers in Linguistics2012

    In this paper I want to explore the feasibility, and some consequences, of a relevancetheoretic account of prenominal possessives in English. A descriptively adequate account of prenominal possessive expressions (henceforth: possessives) in English needs to take cognisance of the following facts

  • Language and the Cognitive Construal of the World

    John R Taylor, Robert E MaclauryBOOKLanguage and the Cognitive…2010Cited by: 7

  • Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics

    Hubert Cuyckens, Rene Dirven et al.BOOKCognitive Approaches to Lexical…2009