Are Linguists Better Subjects?

Linguists Better Subjects ?

Who are the best subjects for judgment tasks intended to test grammatical hypotheses? Michael Devitt ([2006a], [2006b]) argues, on the basis of a hypothesis concerning the psychology of such judgments, that linguists themselves are. We present empirical evidence suggesting that the relevant divide is not between linguists and non-linguists, but between subjects with and without minimally suffic...

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Providing linguists with better tools: Daniel Hirst’s contribution to prosodic annotation

Among Daniel Hirst’s contributions to speech prosody, this article addresses those concerned with the development of automatic tools for prosodic annotation. One of Daniel’s concerns has been to facilitate the task of phoneticians and linguists involved in developing efficient rules for the analysis and synthesis of speech prosody. This presentation describes some of his innovative and fruitful...

Probability for linguists

This paper offers a gentle introduction to probability for linguists, assuming little or no background beyond what one learns in high school. The most important points that we emphasize are: the conceptual difference between probability and frequency, the use of maximizing probability of an observation by considering different models, and Kullback-Leibler divergence. Nous offrons une introducti...

Cloud Computing for Linguists

The system presented is a web application designed to aid linguistic research with data collection and online publishing. It is a service mainly for linguists and language experts working with language description of less-documented and less-resourced languages. When the central concern is in-depth linguistic analysis, maintaining and administering software can be a burden. Cloud computing offe...