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Orthography and Identity in Cameroon [PDF]
, 2001 The tone languages of sub-Saharan Africa raise challenging questions for the design of new writing systems. Marking too much or too little tone can have grave consequences for the usability of an orthography.
Bird, Steven
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Les noms d’humains en -aire : essai de classification
SHS Web of Conferences, 2016 Le présent travail s’intéresse à une classe de noms dénotant des référents humains et construits au moyen du suffixe -aire (des NH-aire : bénéficiaire, abonnataire, contestataire, universitaire, etc.).
Schnedecker Catherine +1 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
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World Englishes and applied linguistics: Theoretical and applied perspectives
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the evolving relationship between world Englishes (WE) and applied linguistics (AL), tracing AL's historical development from its Anglo‐American origins in the mid‐20th century, grounded in “linguistics applied” to its contemporary status as a multidisciplinary field concerned with social justice and equity. It highlights
Kingsley Bolton
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Extending the adverbial coverage of a NLP oriented resource for French [PDF]
, 2011 This paper presents a work on extending the adverbial entries of LGLex: a NLP oriented syntactic resource for French. Adverbs were extracted from the Lexicon-Grammar tables of both simple adverbs ending in -ment '-ly' (Molinier and Levrier, 2000) and ...
Stavroula, Voyatzi, Tolone, Elsa
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Language machines: Toward a linguistic anthropology of large language models
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract Large language models (LLMs) challenge long‐standing assumptions in linguistics and linguistic anthropology by generating human‐like language without relying on rule‐based structures. This introduction to the special issue Language Machines calls for renewed engagement with LLMs as socially embedded language technologies.
Siri Lamoureaux +2 more
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Comparative LegilinguisticsThe concept of “care” is complex and multifaceted, and it is evolving rapidly in our digitized societies. By comparing the contexts of occurrence of the term in English and Chinese, this research aims to shed light on its evolution and diverse ...
Weiwei Guo, Corina Veleanu
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Timing patterns of tone and vowel in Mandarin: Evidence from f0-F1 turning point synchrony [PDF]
JASA Express LettersWe examine timing patterns of tone and vowel acoustics in Xi'an and Standard Mandarin. Using f0 and F1 difference trajectories between rising tone 2 and corresponding high-level tones in the diphthongs /ai/ and /au/ modelled with generalized additive ...
Chenyu Li, Jalal Al-Tamimi
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Contested heritage landscapes for Arabic language learning in a postcolonial France
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract This article analyzes the contested and multiple meanings of “heritage” that emerge for advanced Arabic language learners in a postcolonial France. A linguistic life histories approach reveals a fraught duality of privileged access and exclusionary adversity for heritage students of Arabic.
Chantal Tetreault +2 more
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La grammaticalisation de Meillet, un siècle plus tard
Voix Plurielles, 2012 Le terme grammaticalisation, inventé par le linguiste français Antoine Meillet, fait référence au processus par lequel un mot perd sa valeur sémantique et son autonomie syntaxique pour devenir un élément grammatical.
Paul Bessler
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