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Diacritic Restoration and the Development of a Part-of-Speech Tagset for the Māori Language [PDF]
, 2012 This thesis investigates two fundamental problems in natural language processing: diacritic restoration and part-of-speech tagging. Over the past three decades, statistical approaches to diacritic restoration and part-of-speech tagging have grown in ...
Cocks, John
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Crowdsourcing Universal Part-Of-Speech Tags for Code-Switching
, 2017 Code-switching is the phenomenon by which bilingual speakers switch between multiple languages during communication. The importance of developing language technologies for codeswitching data is immense, given the large populations that routinely code ...
Hirschberg, Julia, Soto, Victor
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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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A microparametric approach on goal of motion constructions : properties of adpositional systems in Romance and Germanic [PDF]
, 2010 This paper explores the idea that the properties of adpositional systems can suffice to explain the Talmian distinction between satellite and verb framed languages.
Real Puigdollers, Cristina +1 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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The secret nominal life of Afrikaans intransitive adpositions
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2017 Languages like Afrikaans are sometimes said to feature a class of adpositions that can be described as “intransitive” (e.g. binne “inside”, bo “upstairs”, agter “in the back”, buite “outside”, onder “downstairs” voor “in the front”).
Pretorius, Erin
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The syntax of manner quotative constructions in English and Dutch [PDF]
, 2012 This paper proposes an account of some properties of the manner quotative constructions be like [Quote] in English and hebben (zo)iets van [Quote] in Dutch. We make two main claims about these constructions.
Haddican, William, Zweig, Eytan
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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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The Natural Semantic Metalanguage of Old English Compound Adpositions [PDF]
, 2009 Este artículo se centra en el estudio del contenido léxico de una serie de adposiciones complejas en inglés antiguo y los procesos semánticos que las han originado.
Guarddon Anelo, Carmen
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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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