Sexual orientation, controversy, and science

JM Bailey, PL Vasey, LM Diamond… - … science in the …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Ongoing political controversies around the world exemplify a long-standing and widespread
preoccupation with the acceptability of homosexuality. Nonheterosexual people have seen …

Syntactic structure from deep learning

T Linzen, M Baroni - Annual Review of Linguistics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Modern deep neural networks achieve impressive performance in engineering applications
that require extensive linguistic skills, such as machine translation. This success has …

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

ST Piantadosi - From fieldwork to linguistic theory: A tribute to …, 2023 - books.google.com
Modern machine learning has subverted and bypassed the theoretical framework of
Chomsky's generative approach to linguistics, including its core claims to particular insights …

Rethinking multilingual experience through a Systems Framework of Bilingualism

DA Titone, M Tiv - Bilingualism: language and cognition, 2023 - cambridge.org
In “The Devil's Dictionary”, Bierce (1911) defined language as “The music with which we
charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.” This satirical definition reflects a core truth …

Large language models demonstrate the potential of statistical learning in language

P Contreras Kallens… - Cognitive …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
To what degree can language be acquired from linguistic input alone? This question has
vexed scholars for millennia and is still a major focus of debate in the cognitive science of …

[图书][B] What babies know: Core Knowledge and Composition volume 1

ES Spelke - 2022 - books.google.com
What do infants know? How does the knowledge that they begin with prepare them for
learning about the particular physical, cultural, and social world in which they live? Answers …

Essentials of a theory of language cognition

NC Ellis - The Modern Language Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Cognition is not just 'in the head'; it extends well beyond the skull and the skin. Non‐
Cartesian Cognitive Science views cognition as being embodied, environmentally …

Tribological effects of the geometrical properties of plasma spray coatings partially melted by laser

A García, M Cadenas, MR Fernández, A Noriega - Wear, 2013 - Elsevier
The tribological behaviour of NiCrBSi plasma spray coatings partially melted by laser was
investigated. Partial melting provides dual property surface coatings: melted areas, with a …

[图书][B] Creating language: Integrating evolution, acquisition, and processing

MH Christiansen, N Chater - 2018 - books.google.com
A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

Neuroplasticity as a function of second language learning: Anatomical changes in the human brain

P Li, J Legault, KA Litcofsky - Cortex, 2014 - Elsevier
The brain has an extraordinary ability to functionally and physically change or reconfigure its
structure in response to environmental stimulus, cognitive demand, or behavioral …