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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Mother tongue influence (MTI) is a widely used yet often underdefined term in India's business process outsourcing (BPO) industry. “Mother tongue” is an unavoidable, yet fraught political category linked to sovereignty, education, region, and ethnicity.
Kristina Nielsen
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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the contested status of “sign language” in Singapore by exploring deaf people's experiences of the “Mother Tongues”—the state's designation for the official languages of Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil—with a particular focus on the relationships that deaf Chinese Singaporeans have with Mandarin.
Timothy Y. Loh
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On the Compatibility of Generative AI and Generative Linguistics [PDF]
arXivIn mid-20th century, the linguist Noam Chomsky established generative linguistics, and made significant contributions to linguistics, computer science, and cognitive science by developing the computational and philosophical foundations for a theory that defined language as a formal system, instantiated in human minds or artificial machines.
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Beyond therapeutics: Psychosis and poetics
Anthropology and Humanism, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I examine how poetry serves as a form of semiotic rearrangement for those undergoing episodes of what psychiatry calls psychosis. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, I explore how poetry's capacity to hold intemporal experiences facilitates an ambiguous economics of meaning that serves as a semiotic ...
Anjana Bala
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British Journal of Developmental Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Preterm birth increases the likelihood of early language and cognitive delays, but less is known about later aspects of language development, such as narrative generation. Narrative skills involve dimensions, such as linguistic and narrative complexity, and preterm (PT) and full‐term (FT) children's narrative performances may vary across these
İbrahim Akkan +5 more
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Vocabulary knowledge is key to understanding and addressing disparities in higher education
British Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Background Persistent degree‐awarding gaps exist in UK universities along the lines of domicile (UK vs. non‐UK) and ethnicity (white British vs. ethnic minority). Although both intersect with language (English as a first or second language), research on the role of language in academic disparities in higher education remains sparse.
Selma Babayiğit, Danijela Trenkic
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Linguistic and metalinguistic characteristics of Persian-speaking children with autistic spectrum disorders: A systematic review. [PDF]
J Public Health Res, 2023 Ahadi H, Abbasi H, Fekar Gharamaleki F.
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British Journal of Educational Technology, EarlyView.Abstract As use of artificial intelligence (AI) has increased, concerns about AI bias and discrimination have been growing. This paper discusses an application called PyrEval in which natural language processing (NLP) was used to automate assessment and provide feedback on middle school science writing without linguistic discrimination.
ChanMin Kim +5 more
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Comparative analysis of story-grammar development: a cross-sectional study of Tamil-speaking child cochlear implant users and hearing peers in Tamil Nadu, India. [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2023 Muthu J, Venkatraman K, Ganesh L.
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Sorries seem to have the harder words
British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Is someone who says ‘I'm genuinely sorry’ more sorry than someone who says ‘I'm really sorry’? The studies in this paper show that people use longer words when apologizing (Study 1) and interpret apologies with longer words as more apologetic (Study 2). This is in line with signalling accounts that propose that apologizers should incur a cost (
Shiri Lev‐Ari
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