[HTML][HTML] Advancing herbal medicine: enhancing product quality and safety through robust quality control practices

H Wang, Y Chen, L Wang, Q Liu, S Yang… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
This manuscript provides an in-depth review of the significance of quality control in herbal
medication products, focusing on its role in maintaining efficiency and safety. With a …

[PDF][PDF] Modern language models refute Chomsky's approach to language

S Piantadosi - Lingbuzz Preprint, lingbuzz, 2023 - lingbuzz.net
The rise and success of large language models undermines virtually every strong claim for
the innateness of language that has been proposed by generative linguistics. Modern …

Structural, functional, and processing perspectives on linguistic island effects

Y Liu, E Winckel, A Abeillé, B Hemforth… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
observed that “island” structures like “Who do you think [NP the gift from__] prompted the
rumor?” or “Who did you hear [NP the statement [S that the CEO promoted__]]?” are not …

Using computational models to test syntactic learnability

EG Wilcox, R Futrell, R Levy - Linguistic Inquiry, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
We studied the learnability of English filler-gap dependencies and the “island” constraints on
them by assessing the generalizations made by autoregressive (incremental) language …

Lack of selectivity for syntax relative to word meanings throughout the language network

E Fedorenko, IA Blank, M Siegelman, Z Mineroff - Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
To understand what you are reading now, your mind retrieves the meanings of words and
constructions from a linguistic knowledge store (lexico-semantic processing) and identifies …

BERT syntactic transfer: A computational experiment on Italian, French and English languages

R Guarasci, S Silvestri, G De Pietro, H Fujita… - Computer Speech & …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the ability of multilingual BERT (mBERT) language model to transfer
syntactic knowledge cross-lingually, verifying if and to which extent syntactic dependency …

[图书][B] Unbounded dependency constructions: Theoretical and experimental perspectives

RP Chaves, MT Putnam - 2020 - books.google.com
This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the
fact that words that go together in meaning can occur arbitrarily far away from each other. In …

[HTML][HTML] Island extractions in the wild: A corpus study of adjunct and relative clause islands in Danish and English

C Müller, CU Eggers - Languages, 2022 - mdpi.com
Adjuncts and relative clauses are traditionally classified as strong islands for extraction
across languages. However, the Mainland Scandinavian (MSc.) languages have been …

Variation in adjunct islands: The case of Norwegian

I Bondevik, D Kush, T Lohndal - Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 2021 - cambridge.org
Finite adjunct clauses are often assumed to be among the strongest islands for filler–gap
dependency creation cross-linguistically, but Kush, Lohndal & Sprouse (2019) found …

A verb-frame frequency account of constraints on long-distance dependencies in English

Y Liu, R Ryskin, R Futrell, E Gibson - Cognition, 2022 - Elsevier
Going back to Ross (1967) and Chomsky (1973), researchers have sought to understand
what conditions permit long-distance dependencies in language, such as between the wh …