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Revolutionizing bantu lexicography: a Zulu case study
Zulu uses a conjunctive writing system, that is, a system whereby relatively short linguistic words are joined together to form long orthographic words with complex morphological structures. This has led to the so-called 'stem tradition in dictionary making for Zulu, as well as for most other Bantu languages. Given this lemmatization approach has been found to be inadequate for young learners (who fail to isolate stems), the development of a new approach was imperative for them, but until recently deemed impossible to implement. In this paper it is argued that it is now perfectly possible to reverse the unproductive trend, and to opt for the lemmatization of full words for all but one of the word classes in Bantu. This revolution is made possible thanks to the recent availability of relatively large corpora, with which the really frequent citation options may be pinpointed. Rather than a mission statement, this paper offers the result for all word classes. To do so, an actual guide to the use of a Zulu dictionary is re-represented and annotated
Two-person neuroscience and naturalistic social communication: The role of language and linguistic variables in brain-coupling research
Social cognitive neuroscience (SCN) seeks to understand the brain mechanisms through which we comprehend others? emotions and intentions in order to react accordingly. For decades, SCN has explored relevant domains by exposing individual participants to predesigned stimuli and asking them to judge their social (e.g., emotional) content. Subjects are thus reduced to detached observers of situations that they play no active role in. However, the core of our social experience is construed through real-time interactions requiring the active negotiation of information with other people. To gain more relevant insights into the workings of the social brain, the incipient field of two-person neuroscience (2PN) advocates the study of brain-to-brain coupling through multi-participant experiments. In this paper, we argue that the study of online language-based communication constitutes a cornerstone of 2PN. First, we review preliminary evidence illustrating how verbal interaction may shed light on the social brain. Second, we advance methodological recommendations to design experiments within language-based 2PN. Finally, we formulate outstanding questions for future research.Fil: García, Adolfo Martín. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Lenguas; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva. Fundación Favaloro. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva; Argentina. Universidad Diego Portales; ChileFil: Ibanez Barassi, Agustin Mariano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva. Fundación Favaloro. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva; Argentina. Universidad Diego Portales; Chile. Universidad Autónoma del Caribe; Colombia. Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders; Australi
Comparison of Motor-Enhanced and Visual-Enhanced Interventions for Grammar in Young Children With Developmental Language Disorder
Up to 7.6% of children demonstrate a developmental language disorder (DLD), which can persist through adulthood, causing difficulty with academic achievement, social relationships, and financial stability. Grammar development, as a hallmark of DLD, is an important area of need for these children. Existing grammar interventions do not clearly distinguish the sensory input techniques that meet these children’s neurobiological instructional needs. This adapted alternating treatment design study implemented intervention using systematic paired visual and verbal and systematic paired motor, i.e. standardized gestures, and verbal sensory input techniques. A moderate-strong functional relation between intervention techniques using motor supports on grammatical outcomes in natural language practice (Tau-U = 0.68) and a potential functional relation between motor supports on grammatical outcomes in decontextualized tasks (Tau U = 0.45) were found. Both paired visual and verbal and paired motor and verbal interventions were found to have a potential functional relation with natural language use among children with DLD ages 4;7 – 6;9 years (n = 4). Patterns of response were reviewed in participants with comorbid delays in speech sound development, executive function development, and high activity levels. Children with severe grammar delays and ADHD/executive function challenges may derive more benefit from paired verbal and motor support. Children with milder overall language delays may respond better initially to combined verbal and visual supports. Both intervention modalities were socially valid and provided effectively by novice clinicians. Interventionists should consider conscious and consistent use of different sensory techniques within grammar intervention for children with DLD
ENGL 0111 - Integrated Reading & Writing - Language and Communication
This OER packet contains the course materials for ENGL 0111 - Integrated Reading & Writing that introduce the ways in which reading and writing work together. Good writers are good readers. When you know HOW reading and writing work, and more importantly, you know what to look for as a reader and writer, your reading will become stronger, and your writing will become more advanced. You will write with the reader in mind, and you will read looking for writer’s tips and tricks! This text introduces fundamental strategies to enhance both reading and writing skills that will help you succeed in college-level courses, as well be a successful communicator in life.https://digitalcommons.pvamu.edu/pv-open-education-resources/1010/thumbnail.jp
The Stylometric Processing of Sensory Open Source Data
This research project’s end goal is on the Lone Wolf Terrorist.
The project uses an exploratory approach to the
self-radicalisation problem by creating a stylistic fingerprint
of a person's personality, or self, from subtle characteristics
hidden in a person's writing style. It separates the identity of
one person from another based on their writing style. It also
separates the writings of suicide attackers from ‘normal'
bloggers by critical slowing down; a dynamical property used to
develop early warning signs of tipping points. It identifies
changes in a person's moods, or shifts from one state to another,
that might indicate a tipping point for self-radicalisation.
Research into authorship identity using personality is a
relatively new area in the field of neurolinguistics. There are
very few methods that model how an individual's cognitive
functions present themselves in writing. Here, we develop a
novel algorithm, RPAS, which draws on cognitive functions such as
aging, sensory processing, abstract or concrete thinking through
referential activity emotional experiences, and a person's
internal gender for identity. We use well-known techniques such
as Principal Component Analysis, Linear Discriminant Analysis,
and the Vector Space Method to cluster multiple
anonymous-authored works. Here we use a new approach, using
seriation with noise to separate subtle features in individuals.
We conduct time series analysis using modified variants of 1-lag
autocorrelation and the coefficient of skewness, two statistical
metrics that change near a tipping point, to track serious life
events in an individual through cognitive linguistic markers.
In our journey of discovery, we uncover secrets about the
Elizabethan playwrights hidden for over 400 years. We uncover
markers for depression and anxiety in modern-day writers and
identify linguistic cues for Alzheimer's disease much earlier
than other studies using sensory processing. In using these
techniques on the Lone Wolf, we can separate their writing style
used before their attacks that differs from other writing
A study of the very high order natural user language (with AI capabilities) for the NASA space station common module
The requirements are identified for a very high order natural language to be used by crew members on board the Space Station. The hardware facilities, databases, realtime processes, and software support are discussed. The operations and capabilities that will be required in both normal (routine) and abnormal (nonroutine) situations are evaluated. A structure and syntax for an interface (front-end) language to satisfy the above requirements are recommended
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