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Explaining Change in Language: A Cybersemiotic Perspective
Entropy, 2009 One of the greatest conundrums in semiotics and linguistics is explaining why change occurs in communication systems. The descriptive apparatus of how change occurs has been developed in great detail since at least the nineteenth century, but a viable ...
Marcel Danesi
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Toward Cognitively Constrained Models of Language Processing: A Review
Frontiers in Communication, 2017 Language processing is not an isolated capacity, but is embedded in other aspects of our cognition. However, it is still largely unexplored to what extent and how language processing interacts with general cognitive resources.
Margreet Vogelzang +8 more
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The interaction and rhetorical conflict between systemic linguistics and generative linguistics
Journal of World Languages, 2022 The distinction of systemic linguistics and generative linguistics has led to more problems for systemicists than for generativists: Halliday’s theory has been widely applied but has not been adequately valued as an influential strand of functional ...
Feng Zongxin
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How Much Data Does Linguistic Theory Need? On the Tolerance Principle of Linguistic Theorizing
Frontiers in Communication, 2019 Yang's (2016) Tolerance Principle describes with incredible precision how many exceptions the mechanisms of child language acquisition can tolerate to induce a productive rule, and is a notable advance in the long-standing controversy as to the amount of
José-Luis Mendívil-Giró
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Representing syntax by means of properties: a formal framework for descriptive approaches
Journal of Language Modelling, 2016 Linguistic description and language modelling need to be formally sound and complete while still being supported by data. We present a linguistic framework that bridges such formal and descriptive requirements, based on the representation of syntactic ...
Philippe Blache
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Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2021 This work examines the nature of the so-called “mid-level generalizations of generative linguistics” (MLGs). In 2015, Generative Syntax in the 21st Century: The Road Ahead was organized.
Leivada Evelina
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Granularity in the semantics of comparison [PDF]
, 2021 This paper makes the novel observation that definite comparatives, such as the bigger circle, impose restrictions on the cardinality of the comparison class (CC) against which their truth conditions are evaluated. We show that the corpus frequency counts
Aparicio, Helena +3 more
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Logic, inference, understanding: cross-domain generalization for generative language models
Frontiers in Artificial IntelligenceNeural systems for Natural Language Inference (NLI) have seen impressive performance over the last ten years, but their ability to generalize beyond their training data has repeatedly been questioned.
Rasmus Blanck, Bill Noble
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Behavioral SciencesThe scientific literature presents evidence of the processes involved in creating and developing protocols aimed at maintaining a safe educational and work environment that prevents gender violence in universities, which has shown negative ...
Alba Crespo-López +2 more
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Homogeneity or implicature : an experimental investigation of free choice
, 2019 A sentence containing disjunction in the scope of a possibility modal, such as Angie is allowed to buy the boat or the car, gives rise to the FREE CHOICE inference that Angie can freely choose between the two. This inference poses a well-known puzzle, in
Tieu, Lyn (R19168) +3 more
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