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Embodiment of sexuality by Israeli Sign Language signers and hearing Hebrew speakers
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 22-43, February 2025.Abstract Language is a key resource for speakers and signers to index different aspects of their social identities, such as their ethnicities and sexualities. Yet, for users of sign language – who exploit movements of the hands, face, head and torso for linguistic purposes – it is often assumed that any communicative movement of the body is part of a ...
Rose Stamp +5 more
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Cognitive Science, Volume 48, Issue 5, May 2024.Abstract Interpreting a seemingly simple function word like “or,” “behind,” or “more” can require logical, numerical, and relational reasoning. How are such words learned by children? Prior acquisition theories have often relied on positing a foundation of innate knowledge. Yet recent neural‐network‐based visual question answering models apparently can
Eva Portelance +2 more
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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsLanguage works by rules, yet linguistic rules may be intentionally and legitimately violated in certain areas of language use to achieve pragmatic purposes. This phenomenon, known as Special Language Domain (SLD), provides a unique perspective to unravel
Yi Tang +4 more
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Language universals and interlinguistic variation [PDF]
, 1975 Actually, the title should include intralinguistic variation along with the interlinguistic one. For variation within one and the same language is the thing which directly presents itself to the observation while it still remains to be demonstrated that ...
Seiler, Hansjakob
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Preaspiration in Sienese Italian & Its Interaction with Stress in /VC:/ Sequences [PDF]
, 2004 This paper reports some initial results from our investigation into effects of stress in /VC:/ sequences in Sienese Italian. Our spontaneous speech data show preaspiration in /VC:/ sequences, not previously reported for any variety of Italian.
Bel, Bernard +3 more
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Marriage bear-hunting & dangerous things Eastern Khanty Agent-demotion constructions [PDF]
, 2010 Choice of constructions - cognitive faculty, discourse coherence in context, structuring information, affecting linguistic form (morphosyntax). System's grammatical resources - pragmatic and semantic properties - speaker’s choice.
Filchenko (Фильченко), Andrey (Андрей)
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Varieties of Cognitive Integration [PDF]
, 2019 Extended cognition theorists argue that cognitive processes constitutively depend on resources that are neither organically composed, nor located inside the bodily boundaries of the agent, provided certain conditions on the integration of those processes
Carter, J. Adam, Kallestrup, Jesper
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Effects of Processing on the Acceptability of 'frozen' extraposed constituents. [PDF]
, 2014 In syntactic theory, `freezing' refers to the idea that a constituent extraposed to a non-canonical position is resistant to extraction of any of its subconstituents (What did Terry see a movie yesterday about ?).
Baayen +72 more
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Gradience and gradualness of parentheticals
, 2014 The assumption made in the present paper is that phraseology and grammaticalization are distinct areas, which nevertheless have many linguistic criteria in common.
C. Bolly
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The lexical-grammatical dichotomy in Functional Discourse Grammar
Alfa: Revista de Lingüística, 2007 <p>This paper deals with the lexical-grammatical distinction in Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), addressing such issues as the nature of linguistic categorization (strict versus gradual) and the possibility of representing gradience in ...
Evelien Keizer
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