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A case of variable impoverishment in European Portuguese [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Este artigo estuda um caso de concordância variável em português europeu que se verifica numa área circunscrita do Norte de Portugal e tem uma distribuição particular: apenas afeta as formas verbais de Infinitivo Flexionado e do Futuro do Conjuntivo ...
Barbosa, Pilar, Freire, Telma
core   +1 more source

Modeling the Paths from L2 Use and Socio‐Affective Variables to Communication Skills: A Mixed‐Methods Approach

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Previous research demonstrated that communication anxiety reduces L2 learners' willingness to communicate and communication frequency, but left unexplored its impact on performance. The current mixed‐methods study investigated factors impacting L2 communication skills.
Debra M. Hardison
wiley   +1 more source

Counting markedness : a corpus investigation on German free relative constructions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This paper reports the results of a corpus investigation on case conflicts in German argument free relative constructions. We investigate how corpus frequencies reflect the relative markedness of free relative and correlative constructions, the relative ...
Vogel, Ralf, Zugck, Marco
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Clarity Without Credibility? Human Versus AI Abstracts in Otolaryngology

open access: yesWorld Journal of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study evaluated whether otolaryngologists can distinguish between human‐ and machine‐written abstracts. The primary question was whether large language models (LLMs) produce abstracts comparable in clarity and usefulness to human‐authored work, and whether reviewers can identify authorship with accuracy.
Sholem Hack   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thought experiments in current metaphilosophical debates [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Although thought experiments were first discovered as a sui generis methodological tool by philosophers of science (most prominently by Ernst Mach), the tool can also be found – even more frequently – in contemporary philosophy.
Cohnitz, Daniel, Häggqvist, Sören
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ChatGPT in public policy teaching and assessment: An examination of opportunities and challenges

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper presents the findings of an innovative assessment task that required students to use ChatGPT for drafting a policy brief to an Australian Government minister. The study explores how future public policy students perceive ChatGPT's role in both public policy and teaching and assessment.
Daniel Casey
wiley   +1 more source

An alternative view of the English alternative embedded passive

open access: yesLinguistics
The English alternative embedded passive (AEP), or “needs washed” construction, is a noncanonical morphosyntactic feature found in some American and British Englishes. It involves a matrix verb surfacing immediately before a participle. Previous research
Duncan Daniel
doaj   +1 more source

Syntactic awareness of Cantonese-speaking children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The development of metalinguistic awareness, and specifically syntactic awareness, (here measured by age-related changes in the ability to judge and revise unacceptable sentences), reflects developmental changes in focus from semantic to syntactic ...
Stokes, SF, Tsang, KS
core   +1 more source

From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Closing the loop: assisting archival appraisal and information retrieval in one sweep [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In this article, we examine the similarities between the concept of appraisal, a process that takes place within the archives, and the concept of relevance judgement, a process fundamental to the evaluation of information retrieval systems.
Kim, Y., Ross, S.
core   +1 more source

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