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Blueprint for a Universal Theory of Learning to Read: The Combinatorial Model
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 2, April/May/June 2025.The Reading Tree. Abstract In this essay, I outline some of the essential ingredients of a universal theory of reading acquisition, one that seeks to highlight commonalities while embracing the global diversity of languages, writing systems, and cultures.
David L. Share
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Instrument subjects are agents or causers [PDF]
, 2007 It has often been noticed that one syntactic argument position can be realized by elements which seem to realize different thematic roles. This is notably the case with the external argument position of verbs of change of state which licenses volitional ...
Alexiadou, Artemis, Schäfer, Florian
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From juxtaposition to incorporation: an approach to Generic-Specific constructions [PDF]
, 2008 In this paper, we present an analysis of classifier noun incorporation in Gunwinyguan languages from northern Australia, focussing particularly on generic-specific constructions.
Nordlinger, R, Sadler, L
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Words as Windows to Thought: The Case of Object Representation [PDF]
, 2010 Languages differ in how they express thought, leading some researchers to suggest that speakers of different languages perceive objects differently.
Bowerman M. +3 more
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Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, Volume 151, Issue 3, Page 332-347, March 2025.Abstract Background and Hypothesis Speech markers are digitally acquired, computationally derived, quantifiable set of measures that reflect the state of neurocognitive processes relevant for social functioning. “Oddities” in language and communication have historically been seen as a core feature of schizophrenia.
Tyler C. Dalal +5 more
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It's not what you expected! The surprising nature of cleft alternatives in French and English [PDF]
, 2019 While much prior literature on the meaning of clefts—such as the English form “it is X who Z-ed”—concentrates on the nature and status of the exhaustivity inference (“nobody/nothing other than X Z”), we report on experiments examining the role of the ...
Beaver, David +2 more
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The house is coming from inside the call
American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 1, Page 208-219, March 2025.Abstract You are reading the first sentence of this essay. In fact, outside of this abstract and a brief introduction, there are only first sentences in this essay, all collected from anthropology monographs and articles. Anthropology is a promiscuous discipline, but there are only about half a dozen ways to begin an anthropology essay.
Lachlan Summers
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Putting it All Together: Agreement, Incorporation, Coordination and External Possession in Wubuy (Australia) [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper we examine the interaction of a number of grammatical phenomena in Wubuy, a polysynthetic language from northern Australia, and show how they can be given a comprehensive analysis within the framework of LFG. While each of these phenomena ?
Baker, B +3 more
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Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 1, Page 160-190, March 2025.Abstract Much has been written on whether practical knowledge (knowledge‐how) reduces to propositional knowledge (knowledge‐that). Less attention has been paid to what we call deliberative knowledge (knowledge‐to), i.e., knowledge ascriptions embedding other infinitival questions, like where to meet, when to leave, and what to bring.
Ethan Jerzak, Alexander W. Kocurek
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The development of complex verb constructions in British Sign Language [PDF]
, 2002 This study focuses on the mapping of events onto verb-argument structures in British Sign Language (BSL). The development of complex sentences in BSL is described in a group of 30 children, aged 3;2–12;0, using data from comprehension measures and ...
Herman, R., Morgan, G., Woll, B.
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