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Charting New Paths in the Study of Kin Term Acquisition
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Kin terms appear among infants’ earliest words, yet a full mastery of kin concepts typically emerges only in late childhood. This prolonged developmental trajectory reflects not only children's acquisition of an abstract relational system of words, but also their growing understanding of social relationships and interactional norms.
Marisa Casillas +2 more
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An Expanded Model for Perceptual Norming: Insights From Japanese Ideophones
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Iconicity is inherently grounded in sensory experience, yet few studies investigate how sensory information is packaged in iconic words. We present perceptual strength ratings for Japanese ideophones, to ask how sensory information is encoded in this word class.
Bonnie McLean +3 more
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Dimensionen der Wahrnehmung von Varianz
Linguistik Online, 2017 The SiN-project data corpus delivers an empirical foundation for the study of different dimensions in the perception of variation as “divergence from common usage” (H. Paul).
Joachim Gessinger
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Limits to Language Prediction: Findings From Diverse Populations
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract For a model in cognitive science to adequately explain cognitive processes across different populations, empirical findings from diverse participant groups are essential. This paper selectively reviews studies that investigated prediction in different populations and discusses what they reveal about the mechanisms and role of language ...
Aine Ito
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New perspectives on morphosyntactic change in African youth language practices [PDF]
Recent years have seen an increase in scholarly attention paid to youth language practices in Africa, with studies examining a range of linguistic phenomena. A parallel development has seen the emergence of work studying morphosyntactic microvariation in
Nassenstein, Nico +3 more
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AIThis paper reports on a pilot study evaluating five large language models (ChatGPT-4, Gemini 2.0 Flash, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Perplexity AI, and DeepSeek) in gradient acceptability judgment tasks in German.
Nicholas Catasso, Finn Esser
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The double modal construction in English world wide
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
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Patterns of variation in existential constructions
Isogloss, 2015 The main goal of the present paper is twofold: on the one hand, to highlight the patterns of variation among the existential constructions found in Italo-Romance and Sardinian dialects; on the other, to examine the observed microvariation in a ...
Silvio Cruschina
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Boletín de Filología, 2010 La definición de variables morfosintácticas suele basarse en la identidad de sus variantes en el nivel semántico descriptivo; no obstante, a menudo existen diferencias en los planos del discurso y la cognición. Así, las formas reflexivas del paradigma de
Miguel Ángel Aijón Oliva
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Superlative Objoid Constructions in British and American English
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates regional variation in Superlative Objoid constructions (SOCs) and their prepositional variant (at‐SOCs). SOCs combine a possessive pronoun with a superlative adjective. These function as manner‐degree modifiers in a context where the possessive is in postverbal position and correlative with the subject, as in they tried
Tamara Bouso, Marianne Hundt
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