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How Do M&A Rumours Influence Deal Completion? The Role of Board Gender Diversity and Language Differences

British Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract In this study, we apply the upper echelons theory (UET) lens to investigate how M&A rumours influence deal completion. Based on our findings, we propose a two‐stage channel that drives the rumour‐specific effect. In doing so, we provide theoretical arguments and empirical support for the relationship between M&A rumours and deal completions ...
Yama Temouri, Amir Shoham, Shlomo Tarba, Vijay Pereira   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enduring constraints on grammar revealed by Bayesian spatiophylogenetic analyses. [PDF]

Nat Hum Behav
Verkerk A, Shcherbakova O, Haynie HJ, Skirgård H, Rzymski C, Atkinson QD, Greenhill SJ, Gray RD.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The contribution of blog-based writing instruction to enhancing writing performance and writing motivation of Chinese EFL learners. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2022
Han S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Autism‐friendly modern foreign language teaching in a university setting: Towards a toolkit for teaching second languages to autistic students

British Journal of Special Education, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper summarises the findings of a research project at a British university exploring autistic students studying modern foreign languages (MFL). The project investigates the experiences, motivations, learning strategies and preferences of autistic MFL learners in a Higher Education context to better understand how MFL classroom pedagogy ...
Caroline de Saint‐Seine, Ekaterina Chown, James Youdale   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI Introduction : vers une anthropologie linguistique de l'IA

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
wiley   +1 more source

Constructing a protolanguage: reconstructing prehistoric languages in a usage-based construction grammar framework. [PDF]

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2021
Hartmann S, Pleyer M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds Traduire l'animal : l'IA et l'intelligibilité des mondes non humains

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
wiley   +1 more source

Corpus linguistics meets historical linguistics and construction grammar: how far have we come, and where do we go from here? [PDF]

Corpus Linguist Linguist Theory
Hilpert M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Grammaticalization as Space Creation: A New View of Grammaticalization

Grammaticalization as Space Creation: A New View of Grammaticalization
In this paper, I discuss the emergence of articles, the and a/an, in the history of English. The indefinite article a/an appeared later than the definite article the in English. This phenomenon is also to be observed in other languages（Abraham 1997, Lyons 1999）.
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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

Journal 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