Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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A study on university students' cognition, attitudes toward usage and preservation of Chinese dialects in Xinjiang: a sustainability-oriented perspective. [PDF]
Sci RepMa Y, Bao H, Ke X.
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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Kothon: A large-scale dataset for machine translation of the Chittagonian and Sylheti dialects into standard Bangla. [PDF]
Data BriefFaisal MA +4 more
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The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 97-115, March 2025.Abstract The development of voiced sibilants is a long‐standing puzzle in Indo‐Iranian historical phonology. In Vedic, all voiced sibilants are lost from the system, but the details of this loss are complex and subject to debate. The most intriguing development concerns the word‐final ‐aḥ to ‐o in sandhi.
Gašper Beguš
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Discovering dialect with mobile phone apps
, 2018 Few linguists these days are brave enough to contemplate the kinds of large-scale surveys of dialect that were carried out in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Back in the 1940s, for example, Harold Orton and Eugen Dieth began the collection of the
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Language-related self-efficacy of pharmacy staff in providing medication counselling to older adults in a linguistically diverse setting. [PDF]
Explor Res Clin Soc PharmSuppiah SD +5 more
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On the Morphology of Toponyms: What Greek Inflectional Paradigms Can Teach us
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 77-96, March 2025.Abstract The research is a contribution to the investigation of the grammatical status of toponyms from the point of view of inflectional paradigmatic morphology. By examining data from Standard Modern Greek, as well as select data from its historical development, the analysis reveals that the inflectional morphology of toponyms shows significant ...
Michail I. Marinis
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Experience and personality modulate pupillary responses during real-time processing of within-language accent shifts. [PDF]
Sci RepHanulíková A, Gastmann F, Schimke S.
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