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Multiword expressions: Insights from a multi-lingual perspective

open access: yes, 2017
Multiword expressions (MWEs) are a challenge for both the natural language applications and the linguistic theory because they often defy the application of the machinery developed for free combinations where the default is that the meaning of an ...
Kuiper, Koenraad   +23 more
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Untested Feasibility as Progressive Performativity: Towards a Desirable Future Through Transformative Responsible Management Education

open access: yesBritish Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract The call for transformation in Management Education (ME) has intensified amid global crises, including the climate emergency, social inequality, and recurrent corporate misconduct. While Responsible Management Education (RME) has emerged in response to these challenges, it often struggles to move beyond symbolic gestures towards substantive ...
Janette Brunstein   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Next Generation: Aspects of Grammatical Variation in the Speech of some London Preadolescents

open access: yes, 2007
PhDThis thesis is a sociolinguistic investigation into aspects of non-phonological variation in a group of preadolescents recorded in outer east London.
Levey, Stephen
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Autism‐friendly modern foreign language teaching in a university setting: Towards a toolkit for teaching second languages to autistic students

open access: yesBritish 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   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deriving Condition A

open access: yes, 2005
This paper advances a reinterpretation of Condition A of the classical binding theory. This approach, based on the application of operations in the computational component of the grammar, is consistent with the methodological constraints imposed by the ...
Hicks, Glyn
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Introduction: Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI Introduction : vers une anthropologie linguistique de l'IA

open access: yesJournal 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

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

open access: yesJournal 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

Why languages differ : variation in the conventionalization of constraints on inference

open access: yes, 2010
Sperber and Wilson (1996) and Wilson and Sperber (1993) have argued that communication involves two processes, ostension and inference, but they also assume there is a coding-decoding stage of communication and a functional distinction between lexical ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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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

open access: yesJournal 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

Linguistic Theory and the teaching of Latin

open access: yes, 2011
In this chapter, I discuss the contribution that formal linguistic theory can provide to language teaching in general and the teaching of Latin in particular.
A. Cardinaletti, CARDINALETTI, Anna
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