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Arguing against obligatory feature inheritance: Evidence from French transitive participle agreement [PDF]
, 2008 In this article, we accept the view that the relevant type of case/agreement features originate on phase heads, but argue against a strong view of the Percolation Hypothesis on which uninterpretable features obligatorily percolate down from a phase head ...
Radford, A, Vincent, M
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Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and World Englishes
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The world Englishes perspective, especially as expressed within Kachru's formulation of the Inner, Outer and Expanding Circles of Englishes, provides a flexible and coherent model of the historical spread of English. While the model has had a profound influence on various subfields of applied linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics ...
Andrew Moody
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Chasqui, 2015 Cuenta como se creó la primera agencia estatal de propaganda en EU. llamada Comisión Creel, cuyo objetivo fue crear una histeria nacionalista en favor de la guerra.
Noam Chomsky
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Rapid learning of an abstract language-specific category: Polish children's acquisition of the instrumental construction [PDF]
, 2008 Rapid acquisition of linguistic categories or constructions is sometimes regarded as evidence of innate knowledge. In this paper, we examine Polish children's early understanding of an idiosyncratic, language-specific construction involving the ...
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Verbal behavior without syntactic structures: beyond Skinner and Chomsky [PDF]
, 2023 Shimon Edelman
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Language machines: Toward a linguistic anthropology of large language models
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract Large language models (LLMs) challenge long‐standing assumptions in linguistics and linguistic anthropology by generating human‐like language without relying on rule‐based structures. This introduction to the special issue Language Machines calls for renewed engagement with LLMs as socially embedded language technologies.
Siri Lamoureaux +2 more
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A Note on Zipf's Law, Natural Languages, and Noncoding DNA regions [PDF]
, 1995 In Phys. Rev. Letters (73:2, 5 Dec. 94), Mantegna et al. conclude on the basis of Zipf rank frequency data that noncoding DNA sequence regions are more like natural languages than coding regions. We argue on the contrary that an empirical fit to Zipf's ``
Berwick, Robert C., Niyogi, Partha
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Human tests for machine models: What lies “Beyond the Imitation Game”?
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract Benchmarking large language models (LLMs) is a key practice for evaluating their capabilities and risks. This paper considers the development of “BIG Bench,” a crowdsourced benchmark designed to test LLMs “Beyond the Imitation Game.” Drawing on linguistic anthropological and ethnographic analysis of the project's GitHub repository, we examine ...
Noya Kohavi, Anna Weichselbraun
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Lexical information from a minimalist point of view [PDF]
, 2009 Simplicity as a methodological orientation applies to linguistic theory just as to any other field of research: ‘Occam’s razor’ is the label for the basic heuristic maxim according to which an adequate analysis must ultimately be reduced to indispensible
Bierwisch, Manfred
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Expletive Constructions and Agreement in Labeling Theory
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT In this paper, I explain how agreement occurs in English expletive constructions, in accord with recent work in the Minimalist Program. I develop a proposal that relies on feature unification and probe‐goal agreement, as well as the notion that internal merge of arguments generally applies freely.
Jason Ginsburg
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