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Language change for the worse [PDF]

Many theories hold that language change, at least on a local level, is driven by a need for improvement. The present volume explores to what extent this assumption holds true, and whether there is a particular type of language change that we dub language
Schaden, Gerhard, Hyman, Larry M.; University of California, Berkeley, Elsweiler, Christine, Hölzl, Andreas, Faytak, Matthew, Hölzl, Andreas; University of Potsdam, Lapierre, Myriam, Weber, Thilo; Leibniz Institute for the German Language, Seiler, Guido; University of Zurich, Matoshi, Veton, Enke, Dankmar W.; LMU Munich, Nichols, Johanna; University of California, Berkeley, Deo, Ashwini, Huber, Judith, Reiner, Tabea, Jäger, Gerhard, Mühlenbernd, Roland   +16 more
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Beyond the Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency Framework: A Meaning-Oriented Approach to Cognitive and Affective Influences on L3 Language Production [PDF]

Brain Sciences
Background/Objectives: Previous research has investigated the impact of cognitive as well as emotional predictors, including WMC and language anxiety on language production.
Fuqiang Ran, Jeroen van de Weijer, Zhiyuan Zheng   +2 more
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Morphology in a Parallel, Distributed, Interactive Architecture of Language Production [PDF]

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2022
How do speakers produce novel words? This programmatic paper synthesizes research in linguistics and neuroscience to argue for a parallel distributed architecture of the language system, in which distributed semantic representations activate competing ...
Vsevolod Kapatsinski
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Hysteresis in motor and language production. [PDF]

Q J Exp Psychol (Hove), 2023
Hysteresis in motor planning and syntactic priming in language planning refer to the influence of prior production history on current production behaviour. Computational efficiency accounts of action hysteresis and theoretical accounts of syntactic priming both argue that reusing an existing plan is less costly than generating a novel plan.
Lebkuecher AL, Schwob N, Kabasa M, Gussow AE, MacDonald MC, Weiss DJ.   +5 more
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Good-enough language production. [PDF]

Trends Cogn Sci, 2022
Our ability to comprehend and produce language is one of humans' most impressive skills, but it is not flawless. We must convey and interpret messages via a noisy channel in ever-changing contexts and we sometimes fail to access an optimal combination of words and grammatical constructions.
Goldberg AE, Ferreira F.
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Formal approaches to complexity in heritage language grammars

This collective volume breaks new ground in studies of linguistic complexity by addressing this phenomenon in heritage languages. It dismisses with the conception that heritage languages are less complex than their baseline or homeland counterparts and ...
Scontras, Gregory, Nagy, Naomi, Kpogo, Felix, Torregrossa, Jacopo, Rinke, Esther, Putnam, Michael T., Laleko, Oksana, Kohut, Alexandra Elizabeth, D'Alessandro, Roberta, Chang, Charles, Salmons, Joe, Flores, Cristina, Polinsky, Maria, Terenghi, Silvia, Lohndal, Terje, Varatharaj, Ashvini   +15 more
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Information-theoretic principles in incremental language production [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023
Richard Futrell
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Referential and inferential production across the lifespan: different patterns and different predictive cognitive factors

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionThe ability to speak is grounded in general memory and control processes and likely changes across the lifespan. However, our knowledge on how word production abilities naturally evolve from childhood to old age remains marginally ...
Raphaël Fargier, Marina Laganaro
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Context Availability and Sentence Availability Ratings for 3,000 English Words and their Association with Lexical Processing

Journal of Cognition, 2022
Words that can be easily placed in contexts are more easily processed, yet norms for context availability are limited. Here, participants rated 3,000 words for context availability and sentence availability, a new metric predicted to capture information ...
Ellen Taylor, Kate Nation, Yaling Hsiao
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What are we Speaking of? A New Perspective on the Post-verbal Field in Hungarian

Hungarian Studies Yearbook, 2022
Hungarian displays a characteristic syntax, that within the generative approach was called non-configurational. For this reason its description is at least unusual, and it cannot be taught with the same formal concepts used for most of the other European
Driussi Paolo
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