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Constructing a second language: some final thoughts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
All the papers in this special section address issues central to cognitive linguistics research: usage-based models with their focus on frequency; multi-word units and the relationship between lexical and grammatical knowledge; and the nature of lexical ...
Ewa Dąbrowska   +1 more
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The CoreGram project: theoretical linguistics, theory development and verification

open access: yesJournal of Language Modelling, 2015
This paper describes the CoreGram project, a multilingual grammar engineering project that develops HPSG grammars for several typologically diverse languages that share a common core.
Stefan Müller
doaj   +1 more source

Seeking systematicity in variation : theoretical and methodological considerations on the “variety” concept [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
One centennial discussion in linguistics concerns whether languages, or linguistic systems, are, essentially, homogeneous or rather show “structured heterogeneity.” In this contribution, the question is addressed whether and how sociolinguistically ...
Agha   +112 more
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Eventualities and different things : a reply [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
“Comments are very welcome!” This basic attitude and the many ways of implementing it contribute immensely to the fascination of engaging in scientific research.
Maienborn, Claudia
core   +1 more source

Generalizing About Striking Properties: Do Glippets Love to Play With Fire?

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
Two experiments investigated whether 4- and 5-year-old children are sensitive to whether the content of a generalization is about a salient or noteworthy property (henceforth “striking”) and whether varying the number of exceptions has any effect on ...
Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Flowing Time: Emergentism and Linguistic Diversity

open access: yesPhilosophies, 2023
Humans are complex systems, ‘macro-entities’, whose existence, behaviour and consciousness stem out of the configurations of physical entities on the micro-level of the physical world.
Kasia M. Jaszczolt
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Linguistic Diversity, Multilingualism, and Cognitive Skills: A Study of Disadvantaged Children in India

open access: yesLanguages, 2020
Multilingualism and linguistic diversity are the norm in India. Although studies have shown a relation between bilingualism and cognitive gains, linguistic diversity has so far been ignored as a potential factor affecting cognitive skills.
Ianthi Maria Tsimpli   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Automatic Language Identification in Code-Switched Hindi-English Social Media Text

open access: yesJournal of Open Humanities Data, 2021
Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools typically struggle to process code-switched data and so linguists are commonly forced to annotate such data manually.
Li Nguyen   +3 more
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Information structure development: Evidence from the acquisition of word order in Russian and English

open access: yesNordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2005
The present paper aims at shedding some light onto the nature of the early child grammar. It is claimed that children do not operate with pure syntactic structures but also have access to pragmatics.
Marina Dyakonova
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Intralingual Variation in Acceptability Judgments and Production: Three Case Studies in Russian Grammar

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
This paper contributes to the task of defining the relationship between the results of production and rating experiments in the context of language variation.
Anastasia Gerasimova   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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