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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Settore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia e Linguistica"”.
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From predictive to interactive multimodal language learning
… a fundamental question in many different disciplines and, from a computational perspective, an answer to this question could lead to important advances in artificial intelligence. While the details of the learning process are still an open question, what we do know is that humans make use of the …
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The perception of intonation in native and non-native linguistic contexts and by different individuals: From question-answer categorization to the integration of prosody and discourse structure
… (L1) and second language (L2). It focuses on the link between the processing of intonational categories and the and pragmatic functions of language. The thesis reports two behavioral psychoacoustic experiments that studied the disambiguation of sentence-modality (statement vs. question) signaled …
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Resources for linguistically motivated Multilingual Anaphora Resolution
An actual trend in the computational linguistics and natural language processing is the implementation of multilingual utilities for different tasks, like information retrival, summarization of documents in different languages or machine translation, tasks in which the resolution of anaphoric …
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Lessico nuovo in lingue di minoranza: ladino fassano e aranese a confronto.
This thesis focuses on the neology in minority languages, especially in the Ladin spoken in the Fassa Valley (Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy) and Aranes spoken in the Aran Valley (Catalonia, Spain), as a means of evaluation of the vitality of these languages. The real grade of Ladin and Aranes is …
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CALaMo: a Construsctionist perspective on the Analysis of linguistic behaviour of Language Models
… (NLMs) have consistently demonstrated increasing linguistic abilities. However, the extent to which such networks can actually learn grammar remains an object of investigation, and experimental results are often inconclusive. Notably, the mainstream evaluation framework in which NLMs are tested …
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The syntactic side of Time: processing Adverb-Verb Temporal Agreement
… of the cognitive mechanisms underlying the online processing of adverb-verb temporal agreement, namely the coherence in temporal features between the verb and a deictic temporal adverb (e.g. YesterdayPAST I wentPAST/*will goFUT to the jazz concert), during sentence comprehension. There are at …
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Predication in non-clausal domains: a configurational approach to Sanskrit bahuvrīhi compounds and their Italian equivalents
In the present thesis I offer a unified solution for the following two apparently unrelated puzzles: i. why is the internal order of Sanskrit bahuvrīhis with a nominal/ adjectival qualifier determined by the dependency holding between the bahuvrīhi’s external referent and one of the …
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Verbs as nouns: empirical investigations on event-denoting nominalizations
… understood by neither native speakers nor linguists. The aim of this work is to understand the rationale that leads us to choose one form instead of the other and to define the linguistic features involved. The hypothesis underlying the whole thesis is that different forms are never true …
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Cooperative Intentions and Epistemic Reasoning in Scalar Implicature Derivation: A Developmental Perspective
… This aim is achieved by focusing on a specific linguistic phenomenon, scalar implicatures, by which listeners enrich the meaning of a given utterance to implicate more than what is explicitly said. Such implicatures arise when a speaker uses a less informative term, such as “some”, when a more …
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TRACING SENSORY EVENTS: A FRAME-BASED APPROACH TO AUTOMATICALLY CAPTURE AND DIACHRONICALLY ANALYSE OLFACTORY AND GUSTATORY INFORMATION FROM TEXTS
… and isolating the specific features of their linguistic expressions. In this dissertation, we focus on these two often overlooked senses, smell and taste, by proposing a novel and comprehensive framework to capture not only their specific terms but also their contextual information, covering …
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Il bilinguismo di minoranza come variabile rilevante nell'apprendimento di una terza lingua.
Il campo di studi sull’apprendimento della terza lingua (L3) e sull’influenza interlinguistica è piuttosto recente nel panorama degli studi riguardanti l’acquisizione linguistica e ancora più recente è il focus sull’ambiente plurilingue e sui parlanti plurilingui. Il presente lavoro è stato …
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Learning the Meaning of Quantifiers from Language and Vision
… mare magnum of studies in philosophy, logic, and linguistics. The way by which they are learned by children has been largely investigated in the realm of language acquisition, and the mechanisms underlying their comprehension and processing have received attention from experimental pragmatics, …
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Automatic Assessment of L2 Spoken English
… world where English has become the lingua franca of business, culture, entertainment, and academia, learners of English as a second language (L2) have been steadily growing. This has contributed to an increasing demand for automatic spoken language assessment systems for formal …