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Cognitive Science, Volume 49, Issue 7, July 2025.Abstract Sentence production is a stage‐like process of mapping a conceptual representation to the linear speech signal via grammatical rules. While the typological diversity of languages is vast and thus must necessarily influence sentence production, psycholinguistic studies of diverse languages are comparatively rare.
Evan Kidd +4 more
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Against Taking Linguistic Diversity at "Face Value" [PDF]
, 2009 Evans & Levinson (E&L)advocate taking linguistic diversity at "face value". Their argument consists of a list of diverse phenomena, and the assertion that no non-vacuous theory could possibly uncover a meaningful unity underlying them.
Cable +7 more
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Correlates of Object Raising in Mayan
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 4, July/August 2025.ABSTRACT Mayan languages show variation in the morphosyntactic distribution of absolutive objects. A now commonly‐adopted analysis ties this variation to differences in object movement and agreement. In so‐called ‘high‐absolutive’ languages, objects consistently raise to a position above the ergative subject, where they are targeted for ϕ $\phi $‐Agree
Justin Royer, Jessica Coon
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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 4, July/August 2025.ABSTRACT Within formal semantics, languages with no exponent of tense, or with optional tense, have begun to be incorporated into the theory of temporality only in the last couple decades. This article traces the development of their study, identifying empirical arguments that arbitrate between competing analyses of tenselessness.
Maziar Toosarvandani
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On grammatical relations as constraints on referent identification [PDF]
, 2010 Based on a Relevance Theory-informed view of language development, this paper argues that grammatical relations are construction-specific conventionalizations (grammaticalizations) of implicatures which arise out of repeated patterns of reference to ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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“Two's company, more is a crowd”: the linguistic encoding of multiple-participant events [PDF]
, 2007 This introduction to a special issue of the journal Linguistics sketches the challenges that multiple-participant events pose for linguistic and psycholinguistic theories, and summarizes the articles in the ...
Bhuvana Narasimhan +4 more
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Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Volume 41, Issue 3, June 2025.ABSTRACT Background Serious games (SGs) have been increasingly utilised in various domains of education and training. These SGs are a compelling and impactful pedagogical tool that have demonstrated the potential to transform users' perspectives in a multitude of fields, including music.
Eleftheria Siklafidou +2 more
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Semantics in Cultural Perspective Overview [PDF]
, 2018 The article was to aim to investigate the semantics overview based on the cultural perspective. The aim of semantics is to discover why meaning is more complex than simply the words formed in a sentence. Culture is a word for the \u27way of life ...
Florence, K. (Karrie) +2 more
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Demographic Biases in Naturalistic Language Recordings in the CHILDES Database
Developmental Science, Volume 28, Issue 3, May 2025.ABSTRACT In recent years, the importance of estimating demographic biases in research has become apparent. Here, we provide a systematic review of the CHILDES database, the major source of naturalistic recordings of children's linguistic environment.
Camila Scaff +3 more
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, 1985 This work is a reference grammar of the Tzutujjl language spoken in the departments of Solola and Suchitepequez in Guatemala. Tzutujil is one of approximately thirty Mayan languages that are spoken by several million people in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize ...
Dayley, Jon P.
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