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Psychology, Experimental
Jeremy Kuhn, Carlo Geraci, Philippe Schlenker, Brent Strickland
Summary: The study reveals that an abstract property of words, "boundedness," affects people's phonological expectations of new lexicon, especially in the contexts of events and objects, leading to iconic biases in word form intuitions.
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Linguistics
Carmen Saldana, Yohei Oseki, Jennifer Culbertson
Summary: This study investigates the link between cognition and the persistent regularity of morpheme order, finding that learners tend to place number morphemes closer to noun stems. This tendency is replicated across English and Japanese speakers, independent of various factors such as morpheme position, boundedness, and frequency. The findings suggest that universal features of cognition may play a causal role in shaping morpheme order.
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(2021)
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Julia Krebs, Ronnie B. Wilbur, Dietmar Roehm, Evie Malaia
Summary: This study examined the time course of neural processing mechanisms in non-signers to understand how physical-perceptual motion features are incorporated into the linguistic system. The results showed that non-signers segment signed input into discrete events as they try to map gestures to linguistic concepts, suggesting a potential pathway for integrating perceptual features into sign languages' linguistic structure.
LANGUAGE COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
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Psychology, Mathematical
Anne Therese Frederiksen, Rachel I. Mayberry
Summary: Implicit causality biases in certain verbs lead speakers to mention either the first-mentioned or the second-mentioned noun phrase from the previous clause. The study found a trend towards more verbs biased towards the second noun phrase in ASL. Thematic roles can predict the direction of biases, and this relationship seems to hold stable across languages and modalities.
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS
(2021)
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Psychology, Experimental
Thomas Brochhagen, Gemma Boleda
Summary: The study finds that lexical ambiguity is pervasive in language and is influenced by cognitive pressure and the need for accurate information transfer. The results suggest that colexification follows a principle of balance.
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Tomislav Radosevic, Evie A. Malaia, Marina Milkovic
Summary: This review examined evidence for predictive processing in sign language, with a focus on semantic prediction and a lack of clarity on the underlying mechanisms in the visual modality. The impact of language mastery on predictive processing remains unclear due to limited participant diversity.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Justin M. Power
Summary: This article discusses the contributions of William Stokoe to sign language historical linguistics, and provides an overview of the field's development and the challenges it faces. It also explores the issues related to understanding sign language relationships and sign cognacy, and suggests future research directions.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Rui Song, Fausto Giunchiglia, Yingji Li, Lida Shi, Hao Xu
Summary: This paper explores the impact of inherent biases in pre-trained language models on abusive language detection and proposes two debiasing strategies, token debiasing and sentence debiasing. Experimental results show that these strategies can reduce bias in language models and improve the performance of abusive language detection.
INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT
(2023)
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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Gul Varol, Liliane Momeni, Samuel Albanie, Triantafyllos Afouras, Andrew Zisserman
Summary: The focus of this work is sign spotting, which aims to identify whether and where a sign has been signed in a continuous, co-articulated sign language video. This is achieved by training a model using various types of available supervision, such as watching existing footage, reading associated subtitles, and looking up words in visual sign language dictionaries. The effectiveness of the approach is validated on low-shot sign spotting benchmarks. Additionally, a machine-readable British Sign Language (BSL) dictionary dataset called BslDict is provided to facilitate further study of this task.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER VISION
(2022)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Ana Mineiro, Inmaculada Concepcion Baez-Montero, Mara Moita, Isabel Galhano-Rodrigues, Alexandre Castro-Caldas
Summary: This study aims to investigate the distinction between pantomime and early signs in a newly-born sign language, and shows that a community of 100 participants was able to establish a shared language within 2 years of interaction. The growth of linguistic systematicity, involving reduction of pantomime use and increase in articulation economy, highlights a continuum of learning and social interaction processes in language development.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Gerhard Jaeger, Johannes Wahle
Summary: This novel method estimates the frequency distribution of linguistic variables while controlling for statistical non-independence due to shared ancestry by using all available data and controlling for different degrees of relatedness. The approach involves inferring phylogenies from lexical data, estimating transition rates between parameter states using these phylogenies in a statistical model, and computing the long-term equilibrium of the resulting Markov process. As a case study, the method investigates potential word-order correlations across languages worldwide.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Ilias Papastratis, Christos Chatzikonstantinou, Dimitrios Konstantinidis, Kosmas Dimitropoulos, Petros Daras
Summary: AI technologies are crucial in helping deaf or hearing-impaired people communicate with other communities, facilitating their social inclusion. Recent advancements in technology have enabled the development of various applications to meet the needs of these communities, but challenges still exist. Future research should focus on addressing these challenges to further advance the field.
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Psychology
Michael Hahn, Judith Degen, Richard Futrell
Summary: The paper introduces the Efficient Trade-off Hypothesis, which suggests that the order of elements in natural language is influenced by memory and surprisal trade-offs. Through large-scale studies, it is shown that principles of order in language can be explained through efficient trade-offs.
PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW
(2021)
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Cornelia Loos, Austin German, Richard P. P. Meier
Summary: The visual-gestural modality allows users to simultaneously move multiple independent articulators, enabling simultaneous encoding of information. This paper discusses the simultaneous encoding in emerging and established sign languages, as well as unexpected sequential phenomena. It also explores potential constraints on simultaneity in cognition and motor coordination that may affect the acquisition and use of simultaneous structures.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Freya Watkins, Stacey Webb, Christopher Stone, Robin L. Thompson
Summary: This study aims to understand the prerequisite skills for successful sign language interpreting (SLI) and how signing and interpreting skills impact other aspects of cognition. The results reveal that initial sign language proficiency and 2D mental rotation are associated with selection for the SLI program, while visuospatial working memory is linked to continuing with the program. These findings highlight the importance of cognition related to the visuospatial modality.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Mathematics, Applied
Emmanuel Chemla, Paul Egre
REVIEW OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC
(2019)
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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Gulsen Eryigit, Cihat Eryigit, Serpil Karabuklu, Meltem Kelepir, Asli Ozkul, Tugba Pamay, Dilara Torunoglu-Selamet, Hatice Kose
LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
(2020)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Lyn Tieu, Philippe Schlenker, Emmanuel Chemla
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2019)
Article
Linguistics
Anouk Dieuleveut, Emmanuel Chemla, Benjamin Spector
JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE
(2019)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Emmanuel Chemla, Isabelle Dautriche, Brian Buccola, Joel Fagot
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2019)
Article
Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Guillaume Dezecache, Aude Bourgeois, Christophe Bazin, Philippe Schlenker, Emmanuel Chemla, Audrey Maille
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Mathematics, Applied
Bruno Da Re, Damian Szmuc, Emmanuel Chemla, Paul Egre
Summary: This study investigates which three-valued truth tables for the connectives can ensure that the resulting logic coincides exactly with classical logic, based on a three-valued definition of validity. The answer is provided for the five monotonic consequence relations st, ss, tt, ss n tt, and ts, considering the connectives of negation, conjunction, and disjunction. The answer is trivial for ts and ss n tt (no scheme works), straightforward for ss and tt (collapsible schemes), and it involves Boolean normal schemes that are either monotonic or collapsible for st.
REVIEW OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC
(2023)
Review
Linguistics
Pritty Patel-Grosz, Salvador Mascarenhas, Emmanuel Chemla, Philippe Schlenker
Summary: We argue that formal linguistic theory can provide a unified framework for various phenomena beyond traditional linguistic objects. Our applications to different domains such as pictorial meanings, visual narratives, music, dance, animal communication, and logical/non-logical concepts demonstrate the pervasiveness of classic linguistic notions. By applying formal linguistic concepts and methodology to non-linguistic objects, we can gain non-trivial insights and potentially develop a comprehensive theory of signs.
LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Emile Enguehard, Emmanuel Chemla
Summary: Scalar implicatures involve inferences derived from the competition between alternatives and the application of a covert operator exh. The distribution of these inferences is constrained, and a new constraint based on connectedness is proposed as a potential explanation for the limited distribution of exh in propositional meanings.
LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY
(2021)
Editorial Material
Linguistics
Milica Denic, Emmanuel Chemla
LINGUISTIC INQUIRY
(2020)
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Linguistics
Emmanuel Chemla, Brian Buccola, Isabelle Dautriche
JOURNAL OF SEMANTICS
(2019)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Lyn Tieu, Manuel Kriz, Emmanuel Chemla
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2019)
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Mora Maldonado, Ewan Dunbar, Emmanuel Chemla
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS
(2019)
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Psychology, Experimental
Mora Maldonado, Emmanuel Chemla, Benjamin Spector
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Linguistics
Meltem Kelepir, Asli Ozkul, Elvan Tamyurek Ozparlak
SIGN LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
(2018)