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From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
wiley   +1 more source

Who’s going the distance here? Fictive motion in (German) sign language

Cognitive Linguistics
Frame-relative fictive motion describes a linguistic phenomenon whereby the motion of an entity is communicated via the – fictive – motion of stationary background objects.
Loos Cornelia, Napoli Donna Jo
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source

As marcações linguísticas não-manuais na aquisição da Língua de Sinais Brasileira (LSB): um estudo de caso longitudinal [PDF]

, 2012
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística, Florianópolis, 2009Esta dissertação objetiva realizar um estudo acerca das marcações não-manuais na aquisição da
Anater, Gisele Iandra Pessini
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James Platt Junior's Contributions to Old English Grammar1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract In 1883, Henry Sweet took issue with James Platt junior, a 21‐year‐old language enthusiast. At the time, Platt was England's brightest young prospect in Old English linguistic studies. Sweet recognised Platt's talent, but he became convinced that he was also a plagiarist and tried to have him expelled from the Philological Society.
Stephen Laker
wiley   +1 more source

A Grammar of Italian Sign Language (LIS) [PDF]

, 2020
A Grammar of Italian Sign Language (LIS) is a comprehensive presentation of the grammatical properties of LIS. It has been conceived as a tool for students, teachers, interpreters, the Deaf community, researchers, linguists and whoever is interested in ...
Chiara Branchini, Lara Mantovan, Mantovan, Lara, Branchini, Chiara   +2 more
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O ritmo na poesia em língua de sinais [PDF]

, 2014
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística, Florianópolis, 2014.Abstract : This dissertation sought to identify elements in sign language poetry that would ...
Klamt, Marilyn Mafra
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Acquisition of phonology in child Icelandic Sign Language: Unique findings

, 2020
Research shows that acquisition of sign language phonology is a developmental process and involves multiple articulatory cues. Among these cues, handshape has been shown to be crucial and orientation has been argued to be potentially disregardable as ...
Ivanova, Nedelina, Koulidobrova, Elena
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Reconstructing Old Chinese *‐ts Using Han‐Time Material

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Baxter & Sagart (2014b) reconstruct *‐Vt‐s on the basis of Middle Chinese reflexes in ‐jH (from some OC *‐s) coupled with either etymological or graphic connections to words in Middle Chinese ‐t. This approach, while perfectly sound, can suffer from lack of etymological or graphic data, leading to missed reconstructions. Since Old Chinese *‐ts
Julien Baley
wiley   +1 more source

L’approche bilingue et l’apprentissage de la lecture chez les sourds

Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2004
The bilingual and bicultural approach in the education of deaf students causes a growing interest in deaf communities, specialists, and deaf children’ parents (Cummins and Danesi, 1990; Mahshie, 1995).
Daniel Daigle, Françoise Armand
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