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International Journal of American Linguistics, 2010 In Inuktitut, la is a morpheme that marks direct speech. A syllable la also occurs within several verbal morphemes, notably in imperative forms and in negative forms. The distribution of la in the verbal paradigms has remained unexplained to our knowledge.
Lavie, René-Joseph +3 more
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Person complementarity and (pseudo) Person Case Constraint effects: Evidence from Inuktitut [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Linguistics-revue Canadienne De Linguistique, 2019 This paper examines the nature of person complementarity in Eastern Canadian Inuktitut (Eskimo-Aleut), arguing that despite its apparent patterning as a Person Case Constraint (PCC) effect, it is not due to the presence of a defective intervener blocking
Richard Compton
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Arguments and information management in Inuktitut [PDF]
, 2009 Research on a variety of structurally different languages suggests that information packaging is assigned to grammatical form via preferred representations of arguments. According to the Preferred Argument Structure Hypothesis (PAS), these preferences can be captured by four interacting constraints.
Elke Nowak, Nowak, Elke
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A Structural Overview of Inuktitut [PDF]
Meta, 2002 This structural overview includes a brief discussion of Inuktitut as a polysynthetic agglutinative language. It outlines affiliations with other language families and lists the sub-branches and dialects of the language. The phonological and morphophonemic systems of Inuktitut are described. The central morphology of the language is
Sammons, Susan
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Models for Inuktitut-English word alignment [PDF]
Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts - ParaText '05, 2005 This paper presents a set of techniques for bitext word alignment, optimized for a language pair with the characteristics of Inuktitut-English. The resulting systems exploit cross-lingual affinities at the sublexical level of syllables and substrings, as well as regular patterns of transliteration and the tendency towards monotonicity of alignment. Our
Charles Schafer, Elliott Franco Drábek
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Improving Translation Quality for Low-Resource Inuktitut with Various Preprocessing Techniques
Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, 2023 Neural machine translation has been shown to outperform all other machine translation paradigms when trained in a high-resource setting. However, it still performs poorly when dealing with low-resource languages, for which parallel data for training is ...
Mathias Stenlund +3 more
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Glottopol, 2023 This qualitative research inspired by an ethno-sociolinguistic (Blanchet & Chardenet, 2011) and participative approach (Wang, 1999) discusses sociolinguistic representations of plurilingual Inuit speakers.
Natacha Roudeix
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Conference on Machine Translation, 2022 We present a collection of expanded human annotations of the WMT20 English-Inuktitut machine translation shared task, covering the Nunavut Hansard portion of the dataset.
Rebecca Knowles, Chi-kiu (羅致翹) Lo
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Biomarker characterization of the North Water Polynya, Baffin Bay: implications for local sea ice and temperature proxies [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2023 The North Water Polynya (NOW, Inuktitut: Sarvarjuaq; Kalaallisut: Pikialasorsuaq), Baffin Bay, is the largest polynya and one of the most productive regions in the Arctic.
D. J. Harning +5 more
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Birth, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 781-788, December 2023., 2023 Abstract Background Transferring pregnant women out of their communities for childbirth continues to affect Inuit women living in Nunavik—Inuit territory in Northern Quebec. With estimates of maternal evacuation rates in the region between 14% and 33%, we examine how to support culturally safe birth for Inuit families when birth must take place away ...
Hilah Silver +6 more
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