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Fuzzy Property Grammars for Gradience in Natural Language
Mathematics, 2023 This paper introduces a new grammatical framework, Fuzzy Property Grammars (FPGr). This is a model based on Property Grammars and Fuzzy Natural Logic.
Adrià Torrens-Urrutia +2 more
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Gradience in linguistic data [PDF]
Lingua, 2005 This paper provides a survey of the theoretical and experimental findings on degrees of grammaticality, with a special focus on gradience in syntax. We first discuss the theoretical relevance of gradient data, and argue that such data should be elicited experimentally in order to be reliable.
Antonella Sorace, Frank Keller
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Playing With Language in the Manual Modality: Which Motions Do Signers Gradiently Modify? [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract Language is traditionally characterized as an arbitrary, symbolic system, made up of discrete, categorical forms. But iconicity and gradience are pervasive in communication. For example, in spoken languages, word forms can be “played with” in iconic gradient ways by varying vowel length, pitch, or speed (e.g., “It's been a loooooooong day ...
Ferrara C, Lu JC, Goldin-Meadow S.
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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.
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Warm (for Winter): Inferring Comparison Classes in Communication. [PDF]
Cogn Sci, 2022 Abstract The meanings of natural language utterances depend heavily on context. Yet, what counts as context is often only implicit in conversation. The utterance it's warm outside signals that the temperature outside is relatively high, but the temperature could be high relative to a number of different comparison classes: other days of the year, other
Tessler MH, Goodman ND.
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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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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 17, Issue 5, September/October 2023., 2023 Abstract Linguistic research on proper names has mostly focused on their semantic and syntactic aspects, with relatively little attention being paid to their phonology. This article provides an exploratory overview of issues surrounding the sound patterns of proper names.
Yu Tanaka
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Grammaticalization from Minimizer to Focus Marker as Upward Reanalysis along the Nominal Spine*
Studia Linguistica, Volume 77, Issue 2, Page 258-306, August 2023., 2023 Abstract This article demonstrates that Japanese minimizers, which are originally used as Negative Polarity Items in a negative context, can sometimes behave as focus markers when used postnominally. I will review a previous syntactic analysis of English minimizers, and propose a revised syntactic analysis of Japanese minimizers, based on newly ...
Yoshiki Ogawa
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Studia Linguistica, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 684-708, December 2022., 2022 Abstract It is standardly assumed that relative clauses are islands for extraction in English, and that constraints on extraction from syntactic islands are universal. However, it has been shown that the Mainland Scandinavian languages provide a large variety of counterexamples.
Ken Ramshøj Christensen +1 more
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Da, pour and to clauses in gradually teleonomic verb constructions. A comparative approach to Serbian, French and English [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2017 This paper examines how the Serbian “da” subordinate clause, the French preposition pour and the English particle to, mainly used in clauses expressing purpose, can become linguistic forms expressing temporal and oppositional values.
Ašić Tijana V. +3 more
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