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With or Without a System: How Category‐Specific and System‐Wide Cognitive Biases Shape Word Order
Cognitive Science, Volume 49, Issue 11, November 2025.Abstract Certain recurrent features of language characterize the way a whole language system is structured. By contrast, others target specific categories of items within those wider systems. For example, languages tend to exhibit consistent order of heads and dependents across different phrases—a system‐wide regularity known as harmony.
Annie Holtz +2 more
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The evolutionary psychology of syntax
Mind &Language, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 344-364, September 2025.Linguists often characterize syntax in terms of combinatorial rules. But there is also a pragmatics to syntax in which communicators choose and tailor syntactic constructions for different communicative contexts. Great apes exposed to “language” combine elements creatively, but they show no skills in the pragmatics of syntax.
Michael Tomasello
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 1537-1546, August 2025.ABSTRACT This study investigates the influence of interpreting mode on learner performance and its practical implications for interpreting training. Utilizing a corpus of learners’ performance in Chinese‐English consecutive interpreting (CI) and simultaneous interpreting (SI), this study applies two entropy‐based measures, namely word entropy and part ...
Lingxi Fan, Andrew K. F. Cheung, Han Xu
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Adpositions locatives en français de Côte d’Ivoire, en dioula et en baoulé
Corela, 2006 The analysis proposed here compares certain locative constructions in Ivory Coast French, specifically Jula and Bawle (two Ivorian languages), in order to examine the function of locative adpositions from a contrastive point of view.
Akissi Béatrice Boutin
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The Morphosyntax of Case and Adpositions [PDF]
, 2008 This dissertation addresses the question of the mapping from syntactic structures to morphological cases. Case is a set of variations in the form of the noun or its associated categories (determiners, pronouns, or adjectives) which is sensitive to ...
Asbury, A.R. +4 more
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Investigating Three Morphemes “-ænæ”, “-æwæ” and “-æɾæ” in Hawrami: Postposition or Case Marker [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2015 In this paper we have investigated three frequent morphemes in Hawrami of Paveh, namely, “-ænæ”, “-æwæ” and “-æɾæ”. The nature of these morphemes is unknown. They are attached to nouns with a meaning like that of adpositions. We aim to explore what these
Fateme Yousefirad +1 more
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Cognitive Science, Volume 49, Issue 2, February 2025.Abstract In spoken languages, children acquire locative terms in a cross‐linguistically stable order. Terms similar in meaning to in and on emerge earlier than those similar to front and behind, followed by left and right. This order has been attributed to the complexity of the relations expressed by different locative terms.
Ercenur Ünal +4 more
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Complex adpositions in Romance: Emergence and variation
, 2020 International audienceIn this paper, we describe the systems of complex adpositions in modern Romance languages, and discuss their status and definition.
Stosic, Dejan +5 more
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Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2016 On the basis of considerations involving complementizers, sentence-final particles, need, aspect, tense, focus and topic, agreement morphemes, determiners, verbrelated particles and adpositions, I reach the conclusion that many more heads in the ...
Kayne Richard S.
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Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 Many languages have specialized locative words or morphemes translating roughly into words like ‘front,’ ‘back,’ ‘top,’ ‘bottom,’ ‘side,’ and so on.
Peter Svenonius
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