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Linguistics in the 21st Century: Problems, Prospects, and Growth Points
This paper considers four problems that are most likely to affect the future development of linguistics: 1) linguistic diversity; 2) the text/system interpretation of language; 3) the role of quantitative methods; 4) the role of diachronic analysis.
Plungyan V. A.
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Categorical perception of affective and linguistic facial expressions [PDF]
Two experiments investigated categorical perception (CP) effects for affective facial expressions and linguistic facial expressions from American Sign Language (ASL) for Deaf native signers and hearing non-signers. Facial expressions were presented in isolation (Experiment 1) or in an ASL verb context (Experiment 2).
Stephen, McCullough, Karen, Emmorey
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Conversational Grammar- Feminine Grammar? A Sociopragmatic Corpus Study [PDF]
One area in language and gender research that has so far received only little attention is the extent to which the sexes make use of what recent corpus research has termed “conversational grammar.” The author’s initial findings have suggested that the ...
Adolphs, Svenia +34 more
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Critical Affective Literacies in/for Applied Linguistics
In this paper, the authors propose that attention to affect/emotion be given greater prominence in applied linguistics following a theoretical and pedagogical framework delineated as critical affective literacy (CAL) by Anwaruddin (2016). Following the IICOLA conference theme of emotions in multidisciplinary studies, the authors outline the ...
Anwar Ahmed, Brian Morgan
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The transition from affective to linguistic meaning [PDF]
This paper reports a transition from affective to linguistic meaning in 15-month-old infants. Behaviour regulation in the context of a social referencing procedure is used as a measure of the meaning of stimulus messages for infants. Of particular interest is the extent to which receptive vocabulary predicts behaviour regulation by language and ...
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Appraisal Theories for Emotion Classification in Text
Automatic emotion categorization has been predominantly formulated as text classification in which textual units are assigned to an emotion from a predefined inventory, for instance following the fundamental emotion classes proposed by Paul Ekman (fear ...
Hofmann, Jan +3 more
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Representation of Authorial Stance in German Scientific Text: Diachronic Change
The paper analyzes historical change in article in strategies and linguistic means of representation of authorial stance in German scientific texts of the 17th-19th centuries.
Y. S. Klochkova
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Gender influence on literature [PDF]
There are opponents and proponents in the new debate on feminine and masculine literature. Opponents emphasize nonsexual nature of literature, and feminist and proponents of research from different perspectives have arrived at the conclusion that ...
Roohangiz Karachi
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Reliability measurement without limits [PDF]
In computational linguistics, a reliability measurement of 0.8 on some statistic such as $\kappa$ is widely thought to guarantee that hand-coded data is fit for purpose, with lower values suspect.
Carletta, J., Reidsma, D.
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On the accuracy of language trees. [PDF]
Historical linguistics aims at inferring the most likely language phylogenetic tree starting from information concerning the evolutionary relatedness of languages.
Simone Pompei +2 more
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