We introduce a method for aggregation of experts’ opinions given in the form of comparative linguistic expression. An algorithmic form of technique for order preference is proposed for group decision making. A simple example is given by using this method for the selection of the best alternative as well as ranking the alternatives from the best to the worst.

This research focuses on the Austronesian or Polynesian Malay language family, which includes languages of Acehnese, Minangkabau, and Gayo respectively. The fact that there are similarities in form meaning, a reflection same historical legacy, is basis for hypothesis three related to one another. based similarities. In this study, linguistic grouping methods lexicostatistical approaches were ut...

This paper examines the question of whether language impairment in Down’s syndrome (DS) can be characterized in terms of the same linguistic markers that were identified for Specific Language Impairment (SLI). The specific proposal we will assess is whether English-speaking adolescents with DS are more impaired in tense-related grammatical morphemes than in non-tense-related morphemes, a dissoc...

Several theoretical proposals for the evolution of language have sparked a renewed search for comparative data on human and nonhuman animal computational capacities. However, conceptual confusions apparently still plague the field, leading to experimental evidence that fails to test for comparable human competencies. We focus on Rey and colleagues’ (2012, Cognition) artificial language study of...

Human language, and grammatical competence in particular, relies on a set of computational operations that, in its entirety, is not observed in other animals. Such uniqueness leaves open the possibility that components of our linguistic competence are shared with other animals, having evolved for non-linguistic functions. Here, we explore this problem from a comparative perspective, asking whet...

In this contribution, we present a computational stylistic study of the French classic literature texts based on a data-driven approach where discovering interesting linguistic patterns is done without any prior knowledge. We propose an objective interestingness measure to extract meaningful stylistic syntactic patterns from a given author’s work. Our hypothesis is based on the fact that the mo...

This paper described recent activities of the Linguistic Data Consortium in the collection, annotation and distribution of language data the developments of tools and standards for using that data, the creation of metadata to facilitate the search for linguistic resources.