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Reassembling the Pimped Ride: A Quantitative Look at the Integration of a Borrowed Expression
Frontiers in Communication, 2022 Over the past decades, research on the linguistic impact of globalization has foregrounded the socio-pragmatic meaning potential and mental categorization of anglicisms, looking for signs of agentivity and contextual sensitivity in the way receptor ...
Stefano De Pascale +3 more
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Have media texts become more humorous?
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2023 As a research topic, humour has drawn much attention from multiple disciplines including linguistics. Based on Engelthaler & Hills’ (2018) humour scale, this study developed a measure named Humour Index (HMI) to quantify the degree of humour of texts ...
Haoran Zhu, Yueqing Deng
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Linguistics, 2022 Researchers studying language variation and change induced by contact with English initially focused on the linguistic integration of English source language (SL) material in the morphophonological structure of the receptor language (RL).
Crombez Yasmin +3 more
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Phylogenetic trees: Grammar versus vocabulary
Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2022 Traditionally, genealogical relationships between languages are established on the basis of phonetic and lexical data. The question whether genealogical relationships among languages can be defined based on grammatical data remains unanswered.
Vladimir N. Polyakov +2 more
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Affix substitution in Indonesian: A computational modeling approach
Linguistics, 2023 Indonesian has two noun-forming prefixes, PE- and PEN-, that often stand in a paradigmatic relation to verbal base words with the prefixes BER- and MEN-.
Denistia Karlina, Baayen R. Harald
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Love in Numbers: Sládkovič’s Marína from the viewpoint of quantitative linguistics [PDF]
Slovenska Literatura, 2022 This review essay discusses the monograph Love in Numbers: Sládkovič’s Marína from the viewpoint of quantitative linguistics authored by Michal Místecký, Natália Kolenčíková, Martin Navrátil and Gabriel Altmann (Bratislava: Veda, 2020).
Miroslav Zumrík
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Weak quantitative standards in linguistics research [PDF]
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2010 A serious methodological weakness affecting much research in syntax and semantics within the field of linguistics is that the data presented as evidence are often not quantitative in nature. In particular, the prevalent method in these fields involves evaluating a single sentence/meaning pair, typically an acceptability judgment performed by just the ...
Gibson, Edward A, Fedorenko, Evelina G
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Letter counting: a stem cell for Cryptology, Quantitative Linguistics, and Statistics [PDF]
, 2012 Counting letters in written texts is a very ancient practice. It has accompanied the development of Cryptology, Quantitative Linguistics, and Statistics. In Cryptology, counting frequencies of the different characters in an encrypted message is the basis
Ycart, Bernard
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Quantitative Standards for Absolute Linguistic Universals [PDF]
Cognitive Science, 2013 AbstractAbsolute linguistic universals are often justified by cross‐linguistic analysis: If all observed languages exhibit a property, the property is taken to be a likely universal, perhaps specified in the cognitive or linguistic systems of language learners and users. In many cases, these patterns are then taken to motivate linguistic theory.
Steven T, Piantadosi, Edward, Gibson
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