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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Measurement of interactional competence (IC) has attracted increasing interest in language assessment research. One key question is whether proficiency sufficiently accounts for IC, making separate IC assessment unnecessary. This study examines the IC–proficiency relationship using a test that assesses Chinese speakers’ ability to manage ...
David Wei Dai, Carsten Roever
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Accountability in Government Use of AI: Citizen Concerns and Preferences
Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Government adoption of AI opens the “pandora's box” of accountability, a core aspect of public value. Despite the centrality of governmental AI accountability, citizens' concerns and preferences in holding governments accountable for AI usage remain poorly understood.
Naikang Feng, Yanto Chandra
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, 2009 There has been a great deal of work examining the structures of yes/no and wh-constructions that has led to many important developments in linguistic theory.
Ginsburg, Jason Robert
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Clause types and speech acts in speech to children
, 2021 The question of how and when children learn to associate clause type with its canonical function, or speech act, is currently unknown. It is widely observed that declaratives tend to result in assertions, interrogatives in questions, and imperatives in ...
Hacquard, Valentine +3 more
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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An Analysis of Interrogative Constructions in Dangme
, 2016 The aim of this paper is to analyse the various means of marking interrogatives in Dangme that is polar, alternative, affirmative and negative content question. Dangme belongs to the Kwa group of languages from the Niger-Congo family of languages.
Caesar, Regina Oforiwah
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Which Clause Type do You Use in Your Conversation?
, 2015 The objective of this article is to discuss the classification of clause type in English Grammar commonly used for either formal or informal conversation.
Suparjan, Suparjan
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Semantic approaches to clause-type selection
, 2023 In this chapter, I discuss recent semantic approaches to the selectional restrictions of clause-embedding predicates, focusing on what I refer to as the Triviality-based Account, according to which selectional restrictions derive from the systematic ...
Wataru Uegaki
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Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Metaethics has long included debates about the function of moral discourse. Some have argued that moral statements express our attitudes, others that they serve as prescriptions for how to act, still others that they describe moral facts or properties.
Amie L. Thomasson
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How Can Law Be Robust in the Face of Heightened Societal Turbulence?
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Taking its cue from the growing frequency of disruptive crises, new research argues that crisis‐induced turbulence calls for robust governance based on adaptation and innovation. While law plays a key role in the effort of governments to govern robustly, the robustness of law has received scant regard.
Eva Sørensen +2 more
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