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Approaching explanatory adequacy in phonology using Minimum Description Length
Journal of Language Modelling, 2021 A linguistic theory reaches explanatory adequacy if it arrives at a linguistically-appropriate grammar based on the kind of input available to children.
Ezer Rasin +4 more
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Optional agreement in Santiago Tz’utujil (Mayan) is syntactic
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2021 Some Mayan languages display optional verbal agreement with 3pl arguments (Dayley1985; Henderson2009; England2011). Focusing on novel data from Santiago Tz’utujil (ST), we demonstrate that this optionality is not reducible to phonological or ...
Levin Theodore +2 more
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On “free” grammatical variation in a mixed lect: Clitic placement in Cypriot Greek
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2021 Variation involving a switch between pre- and post-verbal placement of pronominal object clitics in a single syntactic environment within a language is unexpected.
Grohmann Kleanthes K. +3 more
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Madan, Dilip B. +2 more
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On Psych Verbs and Optional Clitic Doubling in Catalan and Other Ibero-Romance Languages
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2022 Although undesired under a theoretical viewpoint, natural languages often show cases of “true” optionality. According to a reformulation of the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace 2006), highly complex constructions are more susceptible to optionality and ...
Jorge Vega Vilanova
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Optionality: Social Cognitive Factors in Changing Linguistic Complexity in the Dialects of Estonia
Lea, 2013 Estonian dialects provide several examples of increasing and decreasing linguistic complexity. The goal of the article is to clarify the notion of optionality. Optionality is clarified by discussing its relationships with social cognition in the Estonian
Anne Tamm
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, 2020 This article looks at constructions involving optional movement of contrastive foci and argues that this type of reordering cannot be accounted for by assuming that it is driven by a syntactic feature.
E. Titov
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Backchannels: Quantity, Type and Timing Matters [PDF]
, 2011 In a perception experiment, we systematically varied the quantity, type and timing of backchannels. Participants viewed stimuli of a real speaker side-by-side with an animated listener and rated how human-like they perceived the latter's backchannel ...
Heylen, Dirk +2 more
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Financial Innovation, 2023 We propose a novel stochastic modeling framework for coal production and logistics using option pricing theory. The problem of valuing the inherent real optionality a coal producer has when mining and processing thermal coal is modelled as pricing spread
Mesias Alfeus, James Collins
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Beyond Control-Flow: Extending Business Process Configuration to Roles and Objects [PDF]
, 2008 A configurable process model is an integrated representation of multiple variants of a business process. It is designed to be individualized to meet a particular set of requirements. As such, configurable process models promote systematic reuse of proven
A.W. Scheer +12 more
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