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Interpreting sentences without prosody and context
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What kind of data do we usually see in a linguistic paper? The answer is evident: an isolated sentence. Judging whether a particular sentence in a particular meaning is grammatical in a certain language is the primary tool for many formal approaches, but other researchers also often rely on sentences, for example, when they collect data in the field or make generalizations about predominant word orders in various languages. Sentences are great to analyze a very wide range of phenomena, but there are two obvious drawbacks: they are not well suited to study anything that crucially depends on prosody or on wider context. The paper analyzes several examples and then addresses a more general question: how do we interpret sentences in isolation?
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This book is dedicated to the anniversary of Mira Bergelson, Professor of the Higher School of Economics. It includes more than 70 texts devoted to various issues in linguistics, communication theory, language policy, and other areas of science, as well as personal impressions from interactions with the celebrant. The book is addressed to a wide range ...
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Many studies on different languages analyzed how spelling errors are produced and detected. Recently, a new generalization was made for several languages: frequently misspelled words are read more slowly, even when they are written correctly and one knows how to spell them. This is explained by the lower quality of their lexical representations diluted by ...
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Recently, the idea of brain-model alignment has been the topic of several influential works. However, most of previous studies were based on datasets collected during regular reading tasks where the subjects were not exposed to processing linguistic incongruencies, and stimuli were not controlled for key linguistic properties. Meanwhile, interpretability studies of Large Language Models pay ...
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Various coordinating and subordinating conjunctions that connect clauses differ in their structural properties. Such properties seem to influence discourse prominence: references to antecedents from main clauses are more frequent than from subordinate. Structurally, coordinate and subordinate clauses, as well as in-between cases, can be distinguished based on the degree of integration to the host clause. ...
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This volume presents contributions in honour of Askold Ivantchik on his sixtieth birthday. Since his main academic interest lies in the Black Sea region in ancient times inhabited by diverse cultural groups who also had frequent contacts with people from far beyond, we collected articles on this topic. The volume presents papers analyzing different kinds ...
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We present two experiments in which Russian speakers used nonce nouns ending in \textit{-a, -o, -e, -i} and \textit{-u}, producing a form or selecting it from the list. Most forms from \textit{-a} stimuli were inflected, as expected. We also received many inflected answers for other stimuli, although real \textit{-i/u} nouns are always indeclinable, as well ...
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Bringing together research from some of the most influential scholars in linguistics today, this Handbook provides a thorough guide to how context interacts with language. Surveying the latest work from a range of theoretical perspectives, it is essential reading for researchers and advanced students across a range of linguistic subfields. ...
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