Questions related to the evolution of language have recently known an impressive increase of interest (Briscoe, 2002). This short paper aims at questioning the scientific status of these models and their relations to attested data. We show that one cannot directly model non-linguistic factors (exogenous factors) even if they play a crucial role in language evolution. We then examine the relatio...

Previous work [Bowman et al., 2016] has shown that variational autoencoders (VAEs) can create distributed representations of natural language that capture different linguistic levels such as syntax, semantics, and style in a holistic manner. I investigate to what extent VAEs, when trained on different languages, result in comparable representations. To this end, I train VAEs for English and Fre...

We investigated Finnish primary school teachers’ understandings of processes language learning, their reported linguistically responsive practices, professional learning needs, and the links between these. The teachers (n = 246) responded to an online survey. Frequencies, possible background factors practices (one-way analysis variance) correlations understandings, personal needs were investiga...

The PapyGreek Treebanks dataset contains documentary texts written in Postclassical Greek (ca. 300 BCE–700 CE), morphosyntactically annotated according to Dependency Grammar. source of the is Duke Databank Documentary Papyri (DDbDP), which preserves modern editorial treatment documents TEI Epidoc XML encoding. Aiming expose linguistic variation DDbDP, we have two versions a selection documents:...

What is the relevance of Persianate as a category analysis in world wherein even literature continues to be framed literary history discrete nations? First coined by historian Marshall Hodgson 1974, initially referred cultures such Georgian, Armenian, Chaghatay, Urdu, and Ottoman, which were heavily influenced lexically culturally Persian without themselves being related linguistically. Gradual...

This article examined whether semantic indeterminacy plays a role in comprehension of complex structures such as object relative clauses. Study 1 used a gated sentence completion task to assess which alternative interpretations are dominant as the relative clause unfolds; Study 2 compared reading times in object relative clauses containing different animacy configurations to unambiguous passive...

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Cristina Cachero DLSI, Universidad de Alicante Apartado de Correos 99. E03080 Alicante, España [email protected] Emilio Insfran, Silvia Abrahão DSIC, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Camino de Vera, s/n, 46022, Valencia, España {einsfran, sabrahao}@dsic.upv.es Geert Poels Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University Hoveniersberg 24, 9000 Ghent, Bélgica geert.poels@ug...