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Mathematics, 2022 In recent years, the study of evaluative linguistic expressions has crossed the field of theoretical linguistics and has aroused interest in very different research areas such as artificial intelligence, psychology or cognitive linguistics.
Adrià Torrens-Urrutia +2 more
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Statistical language learning: computational, maturational, and linguistic constraints. [PDF]
Lang Cogn, 2016 abstractOur research on statistical language learning shows that infants, young children, and adults can compute, online and with remarkable speed, how consistently sounds co-occur, how frequently words occur in similar contexts, and the like, and can utilize these statistics to find candidate words in a speech stream, discover grammatical categories ...
Newport EL.
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Structure and Written Expressions of the TOEFL: Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Constraints
Nobel: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching, 2021 This study aimed at investigating the students’ linguistic and non-linguistic constraints in doing the Structure and Written Expression section of the TOEFL. This was a qualitative study in the form of a case study and was carried out in two universities
Rolisda Yosintha +2 more
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Compiling Linguistic Constraints into Finite State Automata [PDF]
, 2006 International audienceThis paper deals with linguistic constraints encoded in the form of (binary) tables, generally called lexicon-grammar tables.
B. Courtois +7 more
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A Fuzzy Grammar for Evaluating Universality and Complexity in Natural Language
Mathematics, 2022 The paper focuses on linguistic complexity and language universals, which are two important and controversial issues in language research. A Fuzzy Property Grammar for determining the degree of universality and complexity of a natural language is ...
Adrià Torrens-Urrutia +3 more
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Structural Variability Shows Power-Law Based Organization of Vowel Systems
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Speech sounds are an essential vehicle of information exchange and meaning expression in approximately 7,000 spoken languages in the world. What functional constraints and evolutionary mechanisms lie behind linguistic diversity of sound systems is under ...
Menghan Zhang +4 more
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Asymmetry in Children’s Linguistic Production and Comprehension: A Review and Criticism of Bidirectional Optimality Theory [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2019 It is quite evident that children are capable to understand meanings which they are unable to produce correctly. Recent studies have also provided evidence that children occasionally produce correct forms that they do not understand yet.
Hossein Bazoubandi, Mahinnaz Mirdehghan
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De l’infinitive de perception dans la pratique traductologique
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2019 The subject of the study are the infinitive subordinate clauses (ICP). These infinitive structures, intro-duced by a perception verb like voir (‘see’), regarder (‘watch’), entendre (‘hear’), écouter (‘listen’) and sentir (‘smell’), are ...
Fabrice Marsac +2 more
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How the hand has shaped sign languages
Scientific Reports, 2022 In natural languages, biological constraints push toward cross-linguistic homogeneity while linguistic, cultural, and historical processes promote language diversification.
Michele Miozzo, Francesca Peressotti
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A syntactic-semantic optimality theoretic model on Hakka topic-comment construction
Studies in English Language and Education, 2021 The purpose of this paper is to show how the basic Topic-Comment ordering pattern of the Hakka can be accounted for by the constraint-based optimality theory.
Yu-Ching Tseng
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