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The Role of Age and Instruction in Children's Learning of Vocabulary and Grammar

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract It is generally assumed that children and adults learn language through fundamentally different mechanisms: Children predominantly rely on implicit learning, and adults utilize more explicit strategies (Lichtman, 2016). However, little is known about when and how learners begin to benefit from explicit instruction over the course of language ...
Wensi Zhang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Guidance without ends

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
Attentional guidance plays two crucial roles in temporally extended agency. First, guidance stabilizes attention onto our tasks—and tunes out distractions—for extended periods of time. Second, guidance makes attention telic/atelic. Guidance imposes completion conditions on telic attention (e.g., searching for your keys) but not atelic attention (e.g ...
Zachary C. Irving
wiley   +1 more source

Inferential communication: The primacy of external representations

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
We argue that intentionalist accounts of ostensive‐inferential communication fail to adequately explain the role of external representations in human communication. We propose that the contents of a specific form of representational communication, symbolic depictions via spatio‐temporal arrangements of objects, can be inferred without attributing ...
Nima Mussavifard, Gergely Csibra
wiley   +1 more source

A unified semantics for distributive and non-distributive universal quantifiers across languages. [PDF]

open access: yesNat Lang Linguist Theory
Haslinger N   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Prompt Sensitivity in AI Writing: A Methodological Caution for Corpus‐Based Analysis of AI‐Generated Language

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent corpus‐based studies suggest generative AI systems such as ChatGPT can approximate human patterns of interpersonal metadiscourse in argumentative writing. These conclusions are typically based on AI‐generated texts produced using a single prompt, despite AI output being highly sensitive to even minor changes in prompt specification ...
Peter Crosthwaite   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
wiley   +1 more source

The Racialisation of Rape: A Far‐Right Tool for Boundary‐Creation Across Borders

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Far‐right parties and movements have increasingly come to incorporate ideas of gender equality into their political agendas. While seemingly out of concern for women's rights and safety, these issues are in reality seldom more than a veil to further the stigmatisation of Muslim men.
Mathilda Åkerlund
wiley   +1 more source

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