How Flexible Are Grammars Past Puberty? The Case of Relative Clauses in Turkish‐American Returnees
Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract How flexible are grammars after puberty? To answer this, we test returnees: heritage speakers (HS) born in an immigration context who returned to their homeland in later years. If returnees are targetlike, then language is still malleable after puberty; in contrast, if maturational effects are in play, postpuberty returnees will show ...
Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Silvina Montrul
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Hedgehog Pillows and Squirrel Plates: Priming Semantic Structure in Children's Comprehension
Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract We report three expression–picture‐matching experiments targeting preschoolers’ semantic processing. We assessed whether 3‐ and 4‐year‐olds’ interpretations of ambiguous novel noun–noun combinations (e.g., hedgehog pillow) were affected by immediate language experience and what role lexical items played in this process.
Judit Fazekas +2 more
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Against the Manhattan project framing of AI alignment
Mind &Language, EarlyView.In response to the worry that autonomous generally intelligent artificial agents may at some point take over control of human affairs a common suggestion is that we should “solve the alignment problem” for such agents. We show that current discourse around this suggestion often uses a particular framing of artificial intelligence (AI) alignment as ...
Simon Friederich, Leonard Dung
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Dynamic Transitive Closure-based Static Analysis through the Lens of Quantum Search [PDF]
Jiawei Ren +4 more
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Existential Calculi of Relations with Transitive Closure: Complexity and Edge Saturations [PDF]
, 2023 Yoshiki Nakamura
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Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract Standard decision theory ranks risky prospects by their expected utility. This ranking does not change if the values of all possible outcomes are uniformly shifted or dilated. Similarly, if the values of the outcomes are negated, the ranking of prospects by their expected utility is reversed.
Zachary Goodsell
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The women made it work: fuzzy transitive closure of the results chain in a dengue prevention trial in Mexico. [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2017 Andersson N +4 more
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Infinite ethics and the limits of impartiality
Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract Beneficence—the part of morality concerned with promoting people's well‐being—is widely thought to be both agent‐neutral and impartial: it prescribes a common aim to all, and does not favor some individuals over others. This paper explores a problem for agent‐neutral, impartial beneficence from the perspective of “individualistic ethics” in ...
Jacob M. Nebel
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Cyclic Hypersequent System for Transitive Closure Logic [PDF]
, 2023 Anupam Das, Marianna Girlando
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Parallel tiled Nussinov RNA folding loop nest generated using both dependence graph transitive closure and loop skewing. [PDF]
BMC Bioinformatics, 2017 Palkowski M, Bielecki W.
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