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Come to Your Senses: Initial Evidence That Scents but Not Pronouns Inspire Charitability
ABSTRACT Charitable behavior, for example, donating money to charitable organizations, can strengthen communities and foster equality. Despite the abundance of research on communication strategies that can boost charitable behavior, the interaction between different modalities in such strategies (e.g., written appeals and concurrently present sensory ...
Ilja Croijmans +2 more
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Abstract We investigate what is learned from exposure to usage in verbal morphology using an error correction mechanism within an associative learning framework. We computationally simulated how second language (L2) learners would respond to naturalistic input of aspectual usage, characterized by “imperfect contingencies,” given two types of ...
Justyna Mackiewicz +2 more
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Reflexives and reciprocals in LTAG [PDF]
This paper presents an LTAG analysis of reflexives like himself and reciprocals like each other. These items need to find a c-commanding antecedent from which they retrieve (part of) their own denotation and with which they syntactically agree.
Kallmeyer, Laura, Romero, Maribel
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Polysemy and roots: Deep versus shallow fetching
The paper argues for a model of polysemy based on the blueprint offered by Paul Pietroski whereby the meaning of a lexical item is an instruction to fetch a concept from an address. We show that the bare idea of fetching admits of a deep construal, where a concept is fetched, and a shallow construal, where the instruction merely links a lexical item to
John Collins, Tamara Dobler
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IMPLEMENTASI TEORI CHOMSKY DALAM BAHASA ALQURAN
This research aims to unravel Chomsky’s statment that generative transformation theory can be implemented in languages including Arabic. The main conclusions of this thesis was that generative transformation theory was carried out by Chomsky can be ...
Wati Susiawati
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Uniquely human temporal thoughts
Life on Earth will eventually come to an end. The thought expressed in the previous sentence is about a point in time that is not known to the individual entertaining the thought. This paper is concerned with the nature of such temporal thoughts. We propose that the capacity to mentally represent thoughts about non‐specific temporal intervals is a ...
İsa Kerem Bayırlı
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Algunas notas sobre la economía de la derivación y la representación
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Noam Chomsky
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The Linguistics Wars. By Randy Alien Harris. Oxford University Press: 1993. Pp. 356. £22, $30.
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City University of New York. Department of Linguistics [PDF]
This paper gives reasons to recover the notion of "last resort" found in Chomsky (1991) by examining two uses of the antipassive suffix -ni in Jacaltec, an ergative Mayan language. This suffix is inserted as a last resort where UG makes the assignment of
Ordóñez, Francisco
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Should governments moralize health?
This paper provides a discussion of the ethics of governments moralizing health that accounts for different ways of framing—negative or positive—as well as different potential targets: persons, behavior, or society. It argues that moralizing health becomes more acceptable as it moves away from singling out individuals and toward promoting positive ...
Steven R. Kraaijeveld
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