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...

According to the theory of Universal Grammar, the primary linguistic data guides children through an innately specified space of hypotheses. On this view, similarities between child-English and adult-German are as unsurprising as similarities between cousins who have never met. By contrast, experience-based approaches to language acquisition contend that child language matches the input, with n...

The word vectors learned by continuous space language models are known to have the property that the vectors of synonymous words have cosine similarities close to one. To date, however, the relation of antonymy has not been captured in these models. In this paper, we demonstrate that by incorporating prior information from a thesaurus as an extra term in the language model objective function, t...

This study focuses on sex/gender and language in fMRI research. We explore the question of similarities and differences in 22 men and 22 women, respectively, in a fMRI language production task of fluent narration in which covert language production was contrasted with an auditory attentional task. In women, a left-lateralised activation concentrated in BA 44 while in men activation was more fro...

Languages of the world display many structural similarities. We test the hypothesis that some of these structural properties may arise from biases operating during language acquisition that shape languages over time. Specifically, we investigate whether language learners are biased toward linguistic systems that strike an efficient balance between robust information transfer, on the one hand, a...

Historically, specific language impairment (SLI) and language deficits associated with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have been viewed as distinct developmental language disorders. However, over the last decade or so, a considerable amount of research has explored general similarities or specific areas of overlap between children with SLI and ASD based on language and cognitive profiles, neuro...

second language acquisition (sla) always happens when the learners live and have contact with the native speakers of a second language. although this study investigates learning english by ten native children of farsi, the authors try to simulate the second language acquisition environment. the research deals with the initial state and further development in the child second language learning o...

Researchers in natural language generation are becoming increasingly aware of the similarities between the task of planning the content and structure of the natural language text and that of other AI planning tasks. The problem of text planning and other AI planning problems have been studied separately from each other, and while many overlapping results have been found, they have not been shar...

Idiolects are person-dependent similarities in language use. They imply that texts by one author show more similarities in language use than texts between authors. Sociolects, on the other hand, are group-dependent similarities in language use. They imply that texts by a group of authors, for instance in terms of gender or time period, share more similarities within a group than between groups....