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‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI « Tout est signal » : circuits parlants et signes bruyants dans la création de l'IA orientée langage

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
wiley   +1 more source

Vene ja eesti üliõpilaste valikud täis- ja osasihitise kasutamisel

Lähivõrdlusi, 2010
The article compares the use of total and partial objects by L2 and L1 speakers of Estonian. For the purposes of the article, L2 speakers of Estonian are native speakers of Russian who are pursuing a programme of studies in Estonian as a foreign language
Raili Pool
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Disambiguating quantity judgements: mass/count and extra-grammatical cues

Experiments in Linguistic Meaning
Comparative quantity judgements are a useful probe into the semantics of the mass/count distinction, where count nouns usually trigger cardinal comparisons (more dogs), and mass nouns trigger non-cardinal measurement (more rice). However, exceptions like ‘object’ mass nouns (furniture) and ‘mixed’ comparatives (more gold than diamonds) complicate this ...
Sven Smeman, Maaike Smit, James A. Hampton, Yoad Winter   +3 more
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Hungarian neutral vowels [PDF]

, 2013
In Hungarian, stems containing only front unrounded (neutral) vowels fall into two groups: one group taking front suffixes, the other taking back suffixes in vowel harmony. The distinction is traditionally thought of as purely lexical.
Blaho, Sylvia, Szeredi, Dániel
core  

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
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Agreeing to disagree:Deaf and hearing children's awareness of subject–verb number agreement [PDF]

, 2013
This study investigated deaf adolescents' implicit and explicit awareness of subject–verb number agreement. In Experiment 1, a self-paced reading task, the reading times of deaf and hearing children (matched for reading and chronological age, mean = 8;3 ...
Aaron P. G., Allen T. E., Brandt-Kobele O. C., Breadmore H. L., Breadmore H. L., Brown R., Burani C., Capek C. M., Cazden C., Cohen J., Conrad R., Coulson D., Critten S., De Vincenzi M., Deacon S. H., Deevy P. L., Elbro C., Fabbretti D., Fayol M., Gaustad M. G., Hahne A., Jiang N., Keeney T. J., Kutas M., Leonard L. B., MacGinitie W. H., Macmillan Test Unit, Mahony D., McDonald J., Menyuk P., Miller P., Miller P., Miller P., Musselman C., Musselman C., Negro I., Ni W., Nunes T., Oakhill J. V., Ojima S., Osterhout L., Pacton S., Pawlowska M., Pearlmutter N. J., Powers S., Quigley S., Quigley S. P., Rice M. L., Richardson J. T. E., Rispens J., Soderstrom M., Soderstrom M., Sterne A., Stuart M., Sutton-Spence R., Totereau C., Tsesmeli S. N., Tur-Kaspa H., Volterra V., Waters G. S., Weber-Fox C. M., Wulfeck B. B.   +61 more
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Vulgar Minimisers in English and Spanish1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we investigated whether vulgar minimisers form a natural class in English and Spanish by evaluating (i) their similarities and differences with respect to non‐vulgar minimisers and (ii) whether vulgar minimisers are inherently negative in these languages.
Ángel L. Jiménez‐Fernández, Susagna Tubau   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exclusively reflexive verbs in Spanish: a study of its acquisition among English speaking students at university level [PDF]

marcoELE. Revista de Didáctica Español Lengua Extranjera, 2015
The aim of this paper is to analyze whether the syntactic and semantic behavior of the so called quasi-reflexive or mandatory reflexive verbs in Spanish such as enterarse, quejarse, burlarse, acordarse, fijarse or jactarse can be learned and assimilated ...
Terrón Barroso, Antonio
doaj  

Cross cultural differences in implicit learning of chunks versus symmetries [PDF]

, 2018
Three experiments explore whether knowledge of grammars defining global vs. local regularities has an advantage in implicit acquisition and whether this advantage is affected by cultural differences.
Agresti A, Dienes Z, Dienes Z, Dienes Z, Jeffreys H, Pothos EM, Rebuschat P, Rebuschat P, Rohrmeier M, Thornton C, Tyler CW   +10 more
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