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Revista Linguística, 2017 Avram Noam Chomsky is a world-renowned linguist, philosopher and political activist. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and recently became a laureate Professor in the Department of ...
Alessandro Boechat de Medeiros
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Where New Words Are Born: Distributional Semantic Analysis of Neologisms and Their Semantic Neighborhoods [PDF]
Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 3.1
(2020): 43-52, 2020 We perform statistical analysis of the phenomenon of neology, the process by which new words emerge in a language, using large diachronic corpora of English. We investigate the importance of two factors, semantic sparsity and frequency growth rates of semantic neighbors, formalized in the distributional semantics paradigm. We show that both factors are
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Annual Review of Linguistics, 2023 Current formal semantic theories aim at capturing gestural semantic contributions and in particular their interplay with the semantics that stems from cooccurring speech. To grasp how gesture contributes meaning and interacts with speech, the information
Cornelia Ebert
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Zones and Taxis: Locative Semantics of Russian Cases in Terms of Modern Systems Linguistics
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2019 This paper presents the results of the analysis of locative case semantics from the standpoint of modern system linguistics, in which case is interpreted as a formal grammatical category of a name that arose in Russian as a typical representative of ...
Alexey F. Dremov
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A systemic functional analysis of the “ngp1 + vgp + ngp2 + ngp3” construction in English
Journal of World Languages, 2021 The literature to date features two very different approaches to the study of syntax, the formal or structure-based approach and the functional or semantics-based approach, both of which have advantages and disadvantages.
Huang Guowen, Zhao Ruihua
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Place and place names: a unified model
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 The goal of this paper is to offer a unified account of Place as a central theoretical notion across different disciplines. We show that while psychology, geography and other sciences have been converging to a unified view of this notion, linguistics ...
Francesco-Alessio Ursini, Yue Sara Zhang
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The role of vocabulary components in second language learners' early reading comprehension
Journal of Research in Reading, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 1-21, February 2023., 2023 Background In countries with German as an official language, children with German as a second language perform overall worse in school than their German native speaking peers. This particularly affects written language skills, which require advanced language knowledge.
Martina Röthlisberger +2 more
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Inżynieria lingwistyczna a obecna sytuacja językoznawstwa polskiego
LingVaria, 2015 Linguistic engineering and the current situation of Polish linguistics The thesis of this reply to Piotr Żmigrodzki’s pessimistic diagnosis (published in the previous issue of „LingVaria”) of Polish linguistics from the perspective of modern ...
Adam Przepiórkowski
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Formal Distributional Semantics: Introduction to the Special Issue
International Conference on Computational Logic, 2016 Formal Semantics and Distributional Semantics are two very influential semantic frameworks in Computational Linguistics. Formal Semantics is based on a symbolic tradition and centered around the inferential properties of language.
Gemma Boleda, Aurélie Herbelot
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Cognitive Sciences, 2023 The grammatical paradigm used to be a model for entire areas of cognitive science. Its primary tenet was that theories are axiomatic-like systems.
E. Chemla +7 more
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