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The secret life of connectives: a taxonomy to study individual differences in mid-adolescents’ use of connectives in writing to persuade
Mid-adolescence has been identified as a period of considerable potential growth in the language skills and practices that support reading and...
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Usage disambiguation of Turkish discourse connectives
This paper describes a rule-based approach and a machine learning approach to disambiguate the discourse usage of Turkish connectives, which not only...
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Default meanings: language’s logical connectives between comprehension and reasoning
Language employs various coordinators to connect propositions, a subset of which are “logical” in nature and thus analogous to the truth operators of...
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zhi-{yao, you} ‘only-{need, have}’: on two conditional connectives in Mandarin
This paper offers a compositional take on two internally complex conditional connectives in Mandarin, zhi-yao ‘only-need’ and zhi-you ‘only-have’....
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Towards a Taxonomy of Connectives
Connectives include traditional prepositions, conjunctions, and relative pronouns. Here it is shown that several other important distinctions must be...
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An Investigation of Norms in Legal Translation: A Corpus-Based Study of Conditional Connectives in Company Law
Based on a comparable corpusCorpus comprised of texts collected from different versions of company lawCompany law from the United Kingdom, Chinese...
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Update rules and semantic universals
We discuss a well-known puzzle about the lexicalization of logical operators in natural language, in particular connectives and quantifiers. Of the...
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Connectives
Attention is given to specific uses recently developed in public speaking of discourse markers (e.g. “now”, “well”, “you know”, “and”).
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Temporal Relations at the Sentence and Text Genre Level: The Role of Linguistic Cueing and Non-linguistic Biases—An Annotation Study of a Bilingual Corpus
This study investigates the role of non-linguistic biases in the obligatory (verb tenses) and optional (discourse connectives) linguistic marking for...
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Cognitive and linguistic features of adolescent argumentative writing: Do connectives signal more complex reasoning?
The Common Core State Standards (Common Core State Standards Initiative,
2010 ) feature argumentative writing across the curriculum in grades 4... -
NILC-Metrix: assessing the complexity of written and spoken language in Brazilian Portuguese
The objective of this paper is to present and make publicly available the NILC-Metrix, a computational system comprising 200 metrics proposed in...
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Remodeling effects of linguistic features on L2 writing quality of two genres
This study modeled the effects of essay length and language features on the rated quality of second language (L2) expository and argumentative essays...
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Defective Connective Constructions: Some Cases in Catalan and Spanish
Connectives typically relate two content units. However, corpus analysis shows several variants of the general connective construction (i.e., “S1 Cn...
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Old East Slavic birch-bark literacy – a history of linguistic emancipation?
The aim of the study is to explore the diachrony of orality and literacy in the Old East Slavic birch-bark corpus. One of the most striking...
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Function and Class in Linguistic Description The Taxonomic Foundations of Grammar
This book deals with the traditional problem of the classification of linguistic units, with a primary focus on word classes. The approach is...
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Gibbardian Collapse and Trivalent Conditionals
In conditional logics the law of Import-Export states the equivalence between right-nested sentences of the form “if A, then if B, then C” and their...
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Cohesive devices as an indicator of L2 students' writing fluency
Investigating links between temporal features of the writing process (e.g., bursts and pauses during writing) and the linguistic features found in...
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LoNLI: An Extensible Framework for Testing Diverse Logical Reasoning Capabilities for NLI
Natural Language Inference (NLI) is considered a representative task to test natural language understanding (NLU). In this work, we propose an...
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Turkish Discourse Bank: Connectives and Their Configurations
The Turkish Discourse Bank (TDB) is a resource of approximately 400,000 words in its current release in which explicit discourse connectives and...