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Semitic Root Incompatibilities and Historical Linguistics [PDF]
Journal of Semitic Studies, 2011 [eng] This paper focuses on root incompatibilities in Proto-Semitic and examines the importance of these laws with regard to historical root reconstruction. As is well known, these rules can only be applied to verbal roots, not to derivative forms and affixed forms.
Elena Vernet
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Back to the roots? Critical reflections on the ‘root’ in Finno-Ugric linguistics
Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics, 2017 In Finno-Ugric linguistics, words are usually analyzed in terms of stems and affixes instead of abstract monosyllabic ‘roots’ in the Indo-European sense. However, there have been attempts to introduce the concept of ‘root’ alongside the historically disyllabic stems, in order to account for less regular connections between words and the non-canonic ...
Johanna Laakso
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Study of Root Word Nests in World Linguistics from Various Aspects
Traektoriâ NaukiMalahat Samadova
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The linguistic roots of natural pedagogy [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Natural pedagogy is a human-specific capacity that allows us to acquire cultural information from communication even before the emergence of the first words, encompassing three core elements: (i) a sensitivity to ostensive signals like eye contact that indicate to infants that they are being addressed through communication, (ii) a subsequent ...
Otávio eMattos +3 more
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The roots of linguistic organization in a new language [PDF]
Interaction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 2008 It is possible for a language to emerge with no direct linguistic history or outside linguistic influence. Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL) arose about 70 years ago in a small, insular community with a high incidence of profound prelingual neurosensory deafness.
Mark Aronoff +3 more
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Some word order biases from limited brain resources: A mathematical approach [PDF]
, 2008 In this paper, we propose a mathematical framework for studying word order optimization. The framework relies on the well-known positive correlation between cognitive cost and the Euclidean distance between the elements (e.g.
Ferrer Cancho, Ramon
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Computational phylogenetics and the classification of South American languages [PDF]
, 2019 In recent years, South Americanist linguists have embraced computational phylogenetic methods to resolve the numerous outstanding questions about the genealogi- cal relationships among the languages of the continent.
Chousou‐Polydouri, Natalia +1 more
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Initial explorations in English to Turkish statistical machine translation [PDF]
, 2006 This paper presents some very preliminary results for and problems in developing a statistical machine translation system from English to Turkish. Starting with a baseline word model trained from about 20K aligned sentences, we explore various ways of ...
Durgar El-Kahlout, İlknur +2 more
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Linguistic roots of connectionism
, 2021 This Lingbuzz preprint by Baroni is a nice read if you're interested in linguistically oriented deep net analysis. I did feel it's a bit hampered by the near-exclusive equation of linguistic theory with generative/Chomskyan aps.
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Dependency parsing of Turkish [PDF]
, 2006 The suitability of different parsing methods for different languages is an important topic in syntactic parsing. Especially lesser-studied languages, typologically different from the languages for which methods have originally been developed, poses ...
Eryigit, Gulsen +3 more
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