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On The Linguistic Effects Of Articulatory Ease, With A Focus On Sign Languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Spoken language has a well-known drive for ease of articulation, which Kirchner (1998, 2004) analyzes as reduction of the total magnitude of all biomechanical forces involved.
Napoli, Donna Jo   +2 more
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Modeling Language Variation and Universals: A Survey on Typological Linguistics for Natural Language Processing [PDF]

open access: yesComputational Linguistics, 2018
Linguistic typology aims to capture structural and semantic variation across the world’s languages. A large-scale typology could provide excellent guidance for multilingual Natural Language Processing (NLP), particularly for languages that suffer from ...
E. Ponti   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Anthropological Linguistics (LING21, ANTH020N) Syllabus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Anthropological Linguistics course description:Communication and culture mutually define one another across communities worldwide. Human linguistic diversity, language contact and language change, and face-to-face communication continue to be key areas ...
Harrison, K. David, Thomas, Jamie A.
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Energy And Symmetry In Language And Yoga [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The structures of syllables and of yoga poses are compared. Syllables are tripartite, with sound segments rising in sonority (acoustic energy) to a peak, then falling.
Hess, Sally, Napoli, Donna Jo
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WHY FORENSIC LINGUISTICS NEEDS CORPUS LINGUISTICS

open access: yesComparative Legilinguistics, 2009
While corpus linguistics has existed since the 1960s, Forensic Linguistics is a relatively new discipline, involving both linguistic evidence in court and wider applications of linguistics to legal texts and discourses.
Susan BLACKWELL
doaj   +1 more source

When Languages Die: The Extinction Of The World\u27s Languages And The Erosion Of Human Knowledge [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In When Languages Die, K. David Harrison illustrates the individual face of language loss, as well as its global scale. Languages are the accretion of thousands of years of a people\u27s science and art - from observations of ecological patterns to ...
Harrison, K. David
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Historical Linguistics, Linguistics, and Applied Linguistics: A study inspired by trees

open access: yesOdisea, 2017
: This innovative perspective on historical linguistics, linguistics, and applied linguistics examines these areas of study with the role of trees in mind.
María Del Carmen Arau Ribeiro
doaj   +1 more source

Identity and a Model of Investment in Applied Linguistics

open access: yesAnnual Review of Applied Linguistics, 2015
This article locates Norton's foundational work on identity and investment within the social turn of applied linguistics. It discusses its historical impetus and theoretical anchors, and it illustrates how these ideas have been taken up in recent ...
Ron Darvin, B. Norton
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sampling Bias and the Problem of Generalizability in Applied Linguistics

open access: yesAnnual Review of Applied Linguistics, 2020
In this final contribution to the issue, we discuss the important concept of generalizability and how it relates to applied linguists’ ability to serve language learners of all shades and grades.
Sible J. Andringa, Aline Godfroid
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Preliminary Pages

open access: yesColombian Applied Linguistics Journal, 2019
Her you can find the preliminary pages of the Volume 21, No. 1 2019.
Colombian Applied Linguistics
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