Writing a linguistic symphony: Analyzing variation while doing language documentation
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Language variation and linguistic invariants
Human languages are diverse and so precise statements of common properties must abstract away from specifics of particular languages. We note several abstract and absolute ‘Type 1’ universals and present some new ones built on a notion of ‘structural invariant’ that applies equally to constituent structure and individual grammatical morphemes. Crucially, these universals may be realized in stru...
متن کاملLinguistic Invariants and Language Variation
Since the publication of Noam Chomsky’s field founding Syntactic Structures in 1957, generative grammarians have been formulating and studying the grammars of particular languages to extract from them what is general across languages. The idea is that properties which all languages have will give us some insight into the nature of mind. A widely acknowledged problem to which this work has led i...
متن کاملWriting Internal Documentation
Internal documentation addresses and maintains the program understanding and is intended for current and future developers. Current developers document thoughts and rationales behind a program, so future developers can gain understanding of the program, without resorting to reverse engineering (either manual or “automatic”). We know that programs that are documented in this way are likely to be...
متن کاملLanguage learning, language use and the evolution of linguistic variation
Linguistic universals arise from the interaction between the processes of language learning and language use. A test case for the relationship between these factors is linguistic variation, which tends to be conditioned on linguistic or sociolinguistic criteria. How can we explain the scarcity of unpredictable variation in natural language, and to what extent is this property of language a stra...
متن کاملLinguistic Models for Analyzing and Detecting Biased Language
Unbiased language is a requirement for reference sources like encyclopedias and scientific texts. Bias is, nonetheless, ubiquitous, making it crucial to understand its nature and linguistic realization and hence detect bias automatically. To this end we analyze real instances of human edits designed to remove bias from Wikipedia articles. The analysis uncovers two classes of bias: framing bias,...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0008-4131,1710-1115
DOI: 10.1017/cnj.2017.28