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Cognitive Phonetics: The Transduction of Distinctive Features at the Phonology-Phonetics Interface

open access: yesBiolinguistics, 2018
We propose that the interface between phonology and phonetics is mediated by a transduction process that converts elementary units of phonological computation, features, into temporally coordinated neuromuscular patterns, called ‘True Phonetic ...
Veno Volenec, Charles Reiss
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Efficiency in ambiguity: two models of probabilistic semantics for natural language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper explores theoretical issues in constructing an adequate probabilistic semantics for natural language. Two approaches are contrasted. The first extends Montague Semantics with a probability distribution over models.
Clarke, Daoud, Keller, Bill
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Categories and gradience in intonation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The Autosegmental-Metrical framework (AM) assumes that a distinction needs to be made between linguistic phonological information (categorical) and paralinguistic phonetic information (gradient) in intonation. However, empirical evidence supporting this assumption has proved to be elusive so far.
Brechtje Post   +4 more
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Resenha: Gradience, gradualness and grammaticalization: How do they interact?

open access: yesRevista Linguística, 2015
“Gradience, gradualness and grammaticalization: How do they interact?”, de Traugott e Trousdale (2010), como o título evidencia, trata da interação entre as noções de gradiência, guadualidade e gramaticalização. Com o propósito de responder três questões
José Romerito Silva   +1 more
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The effect of language structures in social event attribution among L2 English learner

open access: yesActa Psychologica
This article investigates whether English positive-negative alternating causal clauses and active-passive alternating syntactic structures make a difference in social event attribution of Chinese-L1 English-L2 learners.
Chengping Xu, Xiangru Meng
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Linguistic Optimization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Optimality Theory (OT) is a model of language that combines aspects of generative and connectionist linguistics. It is unique in the field in its use of a rank ordering on constraints, which is used to formalize optimization, the choice of the best of a ...
Bhatt, Rajesh   +2 more
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Benchmarking AI acceptability and grammaticality in German: A study of ChatGPT and human judgments

open access: yesAI-Linguistica
The rapid development of large language models has opened new avenues for linguistic research, including areas traditionally reliant on native-speaker intuitions.
Nicholas Catasso
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Numbat: Abolishing Privileges when Licensing New Constituents in Constraint-Oriented Parsing

open access: yes, 2006
International audienceThe constraint-oriented approaches to language processing step back from the generative theory and make it possible, in theory, to deal with all types of linguistic relationships (e.g.
Prost, Jean-Philippe
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Meaning and Use in the Expression of Estimative Probability. [PDF]

open access: yesOpen Mind (Camb), 2022
van Tiel B, Sauerland U, Franke M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Instrument subjects are agents or causers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
It has often been noticed that one syntactic argument position can be realized by elements which seem to realize different thematic roles. This is notably the case with the external argument position of verbs of change of state which licenses volitional ...
Alexiadou, Artemis, Schäfer, Florian
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