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It pursues these questions through a combination of classical philology, computational linguistics, and cognitive theory.In philological terms, this dissertation demonstrates that the modern reader’s reaction to a potential allusion in Vergil can be predicted based on the passage’s formal similarities to Homer. Whenever new similarities to Homer are discovered, they should be compared against the pattern of described in this dissertation. If similarities to Homer fit the pattern described here, the scholar of Vergil can be more confident in a putative allusion. If the similarities fall outside the pattern, we must ask why Vergil would deviate from his usual method of poetic composition. The findings of this dissertation also have consequences for cognitive science. Embodied models of cognition state that sensorimotor systems in the brain are active during language processing; therefore imagistic language and descriptions of physical action should be important to cross-language allusion. By contrast, connectionist models of cognition assert that language processing takes place using a hidden lexicon that is distinct from sensorimotor systems. As a consequence, connectionist models predict that features like word frequency should correlate with allusion. The experiments of this dissertation show that word frequency is a poor predictor of allusion, while both concrete language and the actions of characters are highly effective predictors. Therefore embodied models of cognition are supported over connectionist models in the domain of allusive language use.","**To request an accessible version of the file(s) associated with this item, contact library@buffalo.edu. 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It pursues these questions through a combination of classical philology, computational linguistics, and cognitive theory.In philological terms, this dissertation demonstrates that the modern reader’s reaction to a potential allusion in Vergil can be predicted based on the passage’s formal similarities to Homer. Whenever new similarities to Homer are discovered, they should be compared against the pattern of described in this dissertation. If similarities to Homer fit the pattern described here, the scholar of Vergil can be more confident in a putative allusion. If the similarities fall outside the pattern, we must ask why Vergil would deviate from his usual method of poetic composition. The findings of this dissertation also have consequences for cognitive science. Embodied models of cognition state that sensorimotor systems in the brain are active during language processing; therefore imagistic language and descriptions of physical action should be important to cross-language allusion. By contrast, connectionist models of cognition assert that language processing takes place using a hidden lexicon that is distinct from sensorimotor systems. As a consequence, connectionist models predict that features like word frequency should correlate with allusion. The experiments of this dissertation show that word frequency is a poor predictor of allusion, while both concrete language and the actions of characters are highly effective predictors. Therefore embodied models of cognition are supported over connectionist models in the domain of allusive language use.","**To request an accessible version of the file(s) associated with this item, contact library@buffalo.edu. 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