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Complex systems in the history of American English [PDF]
, 2014 Kretzschmar 2009 has demonstrated that language in use, speech as opposed to linguistic systems as usually described by linguists, satisfies the conditions for complex systems as defined in sciences such as physics, evolutionary biology, and economics ...
Kretzschmar, Jr., William A.
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Asynchronous grammaticalization: V1-conditionals in present-day English and German [PDF]
, 2015 The present paper contrasts verb-first (= V1-)conditionals in written usage in present-day English and German. Based on the hypothesis that V1-protases originated in independent interrogatives and then grammaticalized as conditional subordinate clauses ...
Leuschner, Torsten, Van den Nest, Daan
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Accelerating language emergence by functional pressures.
PLoS ONE, 2023 In language emergence, neural agents acquire communication skills by interacting with one another and the environment. Through these interactions, agents learn to connect or ground their observations to the messages they utter, forming a shared consensus
Kasun Vithanage +5 more
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Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2019 Grammar is constantly emergent as an aggregate whole of discourse tendencies that are present in language use between interlocutors, hence the notion ‘emergent grammar’ (Hopper 1987). These tendencies are formed by diverse discursive needs, including the
Seongha Rhee
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THE UNIMODAL AND MULTIMODAL WORLD: A DEFINING CHARACTERISTIC OF MIXED REALITY? [PDF]
Jurnalul Artelor SpectacoluluiThis article offers an epistemological and performative reflection on mixed reality (MR) as an emergent language uniting art, technology, and cognition.
Ligia Ciornei
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Emerging grammars in contemporary Yoruba phonology
Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique, 2023 AbstractThis article provides a description and an Optimality Theory (OT) analysis of contact-induced changes and variation in contemporary Yoruba syllable structure. The article claims that a major diachronic change has occurred in the syllable structure of Yoruba phonology due to its continued contact with English, resulting in the invention ...
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A Systemic Approach to Inceptive Constructions in Lithuanian
Lietuvių Kalba, 2023 The article deals with inceptive constructions in Lithuanian in a systemic way. In the article a thorough overview of eighteen Lithuanian verbs taking infinitives as their complements is given.
Rolandas Mikulskas
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Usage-based and emergentist approaches to language acquisition [PDF]
, 2009 It was long considered to be impossible to learn grammar based on linguistic experience alone. In the past decade, however, advances in usage-based linguistic theory, computational linguistics, and developmental psychology changed the view on this matter.
Behrens Heike +8 more
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Patterns in syntactic dependency networks [PDF]
, 2004 Many languages are spoken on Earth. Despite their diversity, many robust language universals are known to exist. All languages share syntax, i.e., the ability of combining words for forming sentences. The origin of such traits is an issue of open debate.
Ferrer Cancho, Ramon +2 more
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The origins of writing: A neurolinguistic perspective on written communication
East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 2023 If homo sapiens, understood as the evolution of the current human being, was characterized by a cerebral advance and a much more evolved communicative capacity than its ancestors, then it is not conceivable that the origin of writing as the maximum ...
Elena del Pilar Jiménez-Pérez +1 more
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