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The Web in Theoretical Linguistics Research: Two Case Studies Using the Linguist's Search Engine

open access: bronze, 2005
0. Introduction The whisper of “does that sound ok to you?” is a familiar sound to most linguists: we often hear it in the audience when a presenter supports a theoretical point using a judgment of grammaticality or ungrammaticality, and someone in the ...
P. Resnik   +3 more
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Preserved Executive Control in Ageing: The Role of Literacy Experience

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2022
Healthy ageing is commonly accompanied by cognitive decline affecting several domains such as executive control, whereas certain verbal skills remain relatively preserved.
Ana I. Pérez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

How Cognitive Abilities May Support Children’s Bilingual Literacy Development in a Multilingual Society

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
Underprivileged but highly multilingual Indian children often show low literacy performance. As a complicating factor, these children are often expected to develop literacy not just in the regionally dominant language but also in English.
Margreet Vogelzang   +2 more
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(What) Can Deep Learning Contribute to Theoretical Linguistics?

open access: yesMinds and Machines, 2021
Deep learning (DL) techniques have revolutionised artificial systems’ performance on myriad tasks, from playing Go to medical diagnosis. Recent developments have extended such successes to natural language processing, an area once deemed beyond such ...
Gabe Dupre
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bidirectional Language Contact Effects at the DP Domain: The Case of Greek and Vlach Aromanian Speakers

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
We investigate the effects of the historical language contact of Modern Greek (MG) with Vlach Aromanian (VA) in bilingual speakers of three generations living in Epirus, Greece.
Ianthi Maria Tsimpli   +2 more
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On the distribution and interpretation of voice in Greek anticausatives

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
This paper provides experimental evidence in support of the view that Greek does not have three productive morphological classes of anticausative verbs, but only two: the class of verbs that bear non-active voice morphology and the class of verbs that ...
Evripidis Tsiakmakis   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The ‘Galilean Style in Science’ and the Inconsistency of Linguistic Theorising [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Chomsky’s principle of epistemological tolerance says that in theoretical linguistics contradictions between the data and the hypotheses may be temporarily tolerated in order to protect the explanatory power of the theory.
A. Kertész   +35 more
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Ten Lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
In this book, Martin Hilpert lays out how Construction Grammar can be applied to the study of language change. In a series of ten lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar, the book presents the theoretical foundations, open questions, and ...
Hilpert, Martin
core   +1 more source

Large Linguistic Models: Analyzing theoretical linguistic abilities of LLMs

open access: yesarXiv.org, 2023
The performance of large language models (LLMs) has recently improved to the point where the models can perform well on many language tasks. We show here that for the first time, the models can also generate coherent and valid formal analyses of ...
G. Beguš, M. Dąbkowski, Ryan Rhodes
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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