Linguistics

This note proposes a neutral, falsification-oriented framework for evaluating how plausibly a given string of symbols could correspond to spoken language systems at the level of language families. Rat - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This is a continuation of my recent research examining whether the naive use of the current AI systems can lead to research misconduct. Building on the previous observation that current AI systems can - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Clitic placement with European Portuguese uninflected verbs is problematic for prosodic analyses. While ‘proclisis triggers’ give rise to obligatory proclisis with inflected verbs, they often lead to - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

The study of speech categorization has a long history. Two phenomenological laws of speech categorization are statable based on this extensive history: monotonicity and sigmoidality of the identificat - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This note describes an auxiliary, exploratory extension to a previously proposed phonological plausibility framework for evaluating unknown or ambiguous symbol strings. The extension introduces a phon - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This article attempts to examine the linguistic phenomenon of folk etymology and to ascertain its contribution to the probable initial introduction and later survival of Latin loans in Standard Modern - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This is a fifth experiment of my general research program, which empirically explores how current generative AI systems behave with respect to research ethics. This time, I addressed the question of w - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This paper reevaluates Optimal Paradigms (OP), an extension to Optimality Theory proposed by McCarthy (2005). In OP, candidates are full inflectional paradigms and faithfulness constraints can requi - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

In D’Alessandro & Van Oostendorp (2020), we proposed Magnetic Grammar, a model of phonological competence in which a language’s segment inventory is characterised entirely by features that attract or - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This paper puts forward a restrictive approach to subsegmental architecture, which assumes that sub-skeletal representations are composed of obligatorily binary branching nodes and substance-free emer - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

In this paper, we present a comprehensive corpus-driven analysis of Bangla literary and newspaper texts to investigate their lexical diversity, structural complexity and readability. We undertook Vā - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

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Creating high-quality phonological representations in academic documents is often time-consuming and requires juggling multiple tools and LaTeX packages (most notably TikZ). This vignette introduces p - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Linguistic illusion literature debates what information accesses memory representations. Prior work tests whether structural, semantic, or discourse cues guide subject-verb dependencies; however, it r - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This short paper reports a preliminary experiment, which tested how major generative AIs respond to a request to restore data from an existing figure and another request to simulate addional data with - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This study examines whether Gemini, an AI research assistant system that is widely used among college students, recommends ethically questionable statistical practices when analyzing experimental data - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Many Romance languages exhibit a morphomic pattern dubbed PYTA (for {perfecto/ pretérito} y tiempos afines–see especially Maiden 2018, Ch 4). Spanish exhibits a striking instance of this phenomenon. - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Interest in animal communication has arguably reached an all-time high, with two very visible projects—the search for the animal roots of human language and the development of methods and technologies - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Two MMN experiments investigate integrated versus independent processing of complex auditory information in linguistic sound. We hypothesise that neurophsyiologically evoked responses to multiple dist - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Grammaticality judgments are selective: speakers treat violations of agreement, clause structure, tense, or evidential marking as straightforward errors of "grammar", while treating accent shifts, man - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This study examines how Czech-speaking children mark voicing in sibilants and how adult listeners perceive these contrasts in children’s speech. Productions of /s, z, ʃ, ʒ/ by 31 children aged 3;5–6;5 - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This paper investigates what happens to grammatical relationships between two morphemes when an infix incidentally lands between them. Most relationships—including allomorphic and morphophonological re - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This brief note reports a mini-experiment, which tested whether major AI systems (Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT) readily perform p-hacking when requested through neutral statistical framing. A single pr - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This paper presents and analyzes data from A'ingae (or Cofán, an Amazonian isolate, ISO 639-3: con), where the patterns of stress and glottalization in words with classifying nominalizers are sensitiv - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This article discusses the phonological status of diphthongs and their role in the melodic and rhythmic organization of vowel and consonant sequences. We examine the nature of rising diphthongs and th - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Among the foundational questions for cognition is whether perceptual systems encode sensory input as continuous values or transform it into discrete mental representations. Speech—long a model system - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

What is a natural (morpho)phonological alternation and what is unnatural and perhaps underivable? This question forms the backdrop for exploring exchange, whereby [F] → [G] but in this same context [G - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

The immediate goal of this paper is to reconstruct tone on nouns in the Edoid family of Nigeria, one branch within the Benue-Congo subfamily of the Niger-Congo phylum, the largest family in Africa. Af - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

We present a deterministic algorithm for reconstructing Proto-Indo-European etymologies from attested daughter language forms. The Barnaby Protocol operates through systematic skeletal extraction and - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This paper examines palatalization in Czech, focusing on its behaviour in the domain of noun-deriving suffixes. It argues that Czech palatalization is not an assimilatory process, but a re - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive