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Linguistic threat activates the human amygdala [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1999 Studies in animals demonstrate a crucial role for the amygdala in emotional and social behavior, especially as related to fear and aggression. Whereas lesion and functional-imaging studies in humans indicate the amygdala’s participation in assessing the significance of nonverbal as well as paralinguistic cues, direct evidence for its role ...
N, Isenberg +7 more
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Taylor’s law for Human Linguistic Sequences [PDF]
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2018 Taylor's law describes the fluctuation characteristics underlying a system in which the variance of an event within a time span grows by a power law with respect to the mean. Although Taylor's law has been applied in many natural and social systems, its application for language has been scarce.
Kobayashi, Tatsuru, Tanaka-Ishii, Kumiko
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Incrementally Tracking Reference in Human/Human Dialogue Using Linguistic and Extra-Linguistic Information [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2015 A large part of human communication involves referring to entities in the world and often these entities are objects that are visually present for the interlocutors. A system that aims to resolve such references needs to tackle a complex task: objects and their visual features need to be determined, the referring expressions must be recognised, and ...
Kennington, Casey +3 more
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Linguistic capacity of non‐human animals [PDF]
WIREs Cognitive Science, 2015 Linguists interested in language evolution tend to focus on combinatorial features and rightly point out the lack of comparable evidence in animal communication. However, human language is based on various unique capacities, such as a motor capacity of sophisticated vocal control and a cognitive capacity of acting on others' psychological states. These
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Primate Vocalizations and Human Linguistic Ability [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1968 Some representative vocalizations of captive rhesus monkey, chimpanzee, and gorilla were recorded and analyzed by means of sound spectrograms and oscillograms. It was found that these animals' vocal mechanisms do not appear capable of producing human speech. A uniform-cross-section, schwalike configuration appeared to underlie all the vocalizations. No
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LINGUISTIC SUSTAINABILITY FOR A MULTILINGUAL HUMANITY [PDF]
Sustainable Multilingualism, 2014 Transdisciplinary analogies and metaphors are potential useful tools for thinking and creativity. The exploration of other conceptual philosophies and fields can be rewarding and can contribute to produce new useful ideas to be applied on different problems and parts of reality.
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Linguistics in the digital humanities: (computational) corpus linguistics
MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research, 2014 Corpus linguistics has been closely intertwined with digital technology since the introduction of university computer mainframes in the 1960s. Making use of both digitized data in the form of the language corpus and computational methods of analysis involving concordancers and statistics software, corpus linguistics arguably has a place in the digital ...
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“A HUMAN FACE” OF COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2017 In this article, I want to put forward the following argument: Cognitive Linguistics – after a long hegemony of Chomskyan formalist linguistics – has offered models of language as “motivated” by general and prior cognitive abilities; as such it has been able to provide representations of a much wider range of linguistic phenomena (both grammatical and ...
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Emergence of linguistic laws in human voice [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2017 AbstractLinguistic laws constitute one of the quantitative cornerstones of modern cognitive sciences and have been routinely investigated in written corpora, or in the equivalent transcription of oral corpora. This means that inferences of statistical patterns of language in acoustics are biased by the arbitrary, language-dependent segmentation of the ...
González Torre, Iván +4 more
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Human factors and linguistic considerations [PDF]
Proceedings of the 8th conference on Computational linguistics -, 1980 With a keyboard and supporting system developed at Cornell University, input methods used to identify ideographs are adaptations of well-known schemes; innovation is in the addition of automatic machine selection of ambiguously identified characters.The unique feature of the Cornell design is that a certain amount of intelligence has been built into ...
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