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Ab Initio Adult Third Language Acquisition: Transfer source selection and effects of CLI in acquisition of an artificial language
No full textThe field of generative third language acquisition has seen considerable activity in the last decade, resulting in several dominant models which seek to explain the phenomenon of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) and transfer. This study investigates the role of previously acquired languages, Norwegian and English, in the acquisition of morphosyntax of a miniature artificial language (MAL) at the absolute initial (ab initio) stage of third language acquisition (L3A).
The study explores three factors in transfer source selection during third language acquisition: order of acquisition, structural vs. typological similarity, and the language of the acquisition environment. Results are drawn from a group of n = 77 Norwegian/English bilingual participants via two acceptability judgment tasks focused on sentence-level word order and verb seconding, completed following a training on the lexicon of the MAL. Separating the two assessments was an additional training segment where participants were exposed to two additional morphosyntactic structures found in their first language (L1), Norwegian, but not their second language (L2), English.
The results indicate support for the Linguistic Proximity Model (LPM; Westergaard et al., 2017; Westergaard, 2019, 2021a, 2021b) as the current model which most accurately explains the data, and suggests that CLI is the result of activation of linguistic structures with multiple sources of input (e.g. that CLI occurs property by property) and that language learners are receptive to a wide variety of cues which guide transfer source selection
A Multi-Language Comparison of Influences on Author Verification using Character N-Grams
No full textWe create a new multi-language corpus for author verification based on Wikipedia talkpages, and evaluate the influence that differences in topic and time have on character n-gram author profiles. Topic alignment between two texts is found to increase author verification precision, and an authors writing style is found to change over time, but not more significantly after 3 years than after 1 year.Information ArchitectureWISElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
The vanishing author in computer-generated works: a critical analysis of recent Australian case law
No full textAbstract
The use of software is ubiquitous in the creation of many copyright works, yet the requirement in copyright law that every work have a human author who engages in independent intellectual effort means that its use may prevent copyright subsistence. Several recent Australian cases have refocused attention on authorship as an essential criterion of copyright subsistence, and these cases suggest that much computer-produced output may be authorless and thus lack copyright protection. This article, the first in a two-part series, analyses how each case deals with the question of authorship of computer-produced works and why the use of software diminishes copyright protection for a significant number of computer-generated works. The article critiques the application of conventional notions of human authorship developed in the pre-computer age to modern productions and suggests alternative approaches to authorship that satisfy both the major objectives of copyright policy and the need to adapt to the computer age. The article argues that, without a broader judicial approach to authorship of computer-generated works, Parliament must remedy the lacuna in protection for these ‘authorless’ works. Possible solutions for reform are suggested. In a forthcoming article, the author comprehensively examines those reform proposals
Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
The NuSTAR, XMM-Newton, and Suzaku View of A3395 at the Intercluster Filament Interface
No full textGalaxy clusters are the largest virialized objects in the universe. Their merger dynamics and their interactions with the cosmic filaments that connect them are important for our understanding of the formation of large-scale structure. In addition, cosmic filaments are thought to possess the missing baryons in the universe. Studying the interaction of galaxy clusters and filaments therefore has the potential to unveil the origin of the baryons and the physical processes that occur during merger stages of galaxy clusters. In this paper, we study the connection between A3395 and the intercluster filament with NuSTAR, XMM-Newton, and Suzaku data. Since the NuSTAR observation is moderately contaminated by scattered light, we present a novel technique developed for disentangling this background from the emission from the intracluster medium. We find that the interface of the cluster and the intercluster filament connecting A3395 and A3391 does not show any signs of heated plasma, as was previously thought. This interface has low temperature, high density, and low entropy, thus we suggest that the gas is cooling, being enhanced by the turbulent or tidal "weather"driven during the early stage of the merger. Furthermore, our temperature results from the NuSTAR data are in agreement with those from XMM-Newton and from joint NuSTAR and XMM-Newton analysis for a region with ∼25% scattered light contamination within 1σ. We show that the temperature constraint of the intracluster medium is valid even when the data are contaminated up to ∼25% for ∼5 keV cluster emission
Desmontaje : una travesía por la ausencia : el infierno de Dante
No full textEl ciclo DESMONTAJE busca abrir un diálogo entre invitados especiales, creadores y público sobre los principios compositivos que presenta cada producción escénica radicada en el CePIA. La obra "Una travesía por la ausencia. El Infierno de Dante" forma parte del Proyecto de Producción CePIAbierto 2016 (RHCD FA N° 90/2016) "El infierno de Dante: intertextualidad y teatro de sombras".Moderadora y asesora del proyecto: Daniela Martín.
Directora: Sofía Bustos.
Actrices: Victoria Vaccalluzzo, Mariana Saur, Paulette Yurquina.
Actores: Agustín Gerbaldo, David Laurentti.
Registro en video: Azul Regina Urioste.
Edición: Sharon Olazaval Miranda.
Postproducción de sonido: Federico Westergaard.
Fotografía: Marco Buontempo.
Iluminador : Joaquín Aguiló.
Músico en escena: Federico Burgi.
Invitados: Daniel Alejandro Maffei, Lilian Mendizabal.Centro de Producción e Investigación en Artes, Facultad de Artes, UNCEn la última función de cada obra se convoca a referentes de distintos campos disciplinares quienes pondrán en común sus claves de lectura, propiciando una reflexión conjunta con los creadores. El lenguaje audiovisual del teatro de sombras, ejecutado por actores y actrices, es el motor para generar un acontecimiento escénico, muestra de un proceso grupal de búsqueda para contar el relato de la entrada de Dante al Infierno en busca de Beatriz. Esta narración hace foco en el territorio del infierno, donde las pasiones humanas se enfrentan para decidir la acción.Centro de Producción e Investigación en Artes, Facultad de Artes, UN
Where did they go?
No full textWe study individual job-separations and their associated destination states for all individuals in the private sector in Denmark for the period 1980 to 1995 and account for the cyclical flows. We find that individual and workplace characteristics as well as business cycle effects are important in explaining the individual behaviour. In policy simulations we look at the impact on individual transitions. We find that structural and growth policies have different implications for the economy. Policy interventions with the purpose of preventing firm closures are argued to be inefficient.Business cycles; Job separations; Transition probabilities
Bilinguals are better than monolinguals in detecting manipulative discourse
No full textThere are 3 files, listed and described below.
(A) Title: Dataset for monolinguals_Bilinguals are better than monolinguals in detecting manipulative discourse. Description: The file provides the raw data for the monolingual group of participants.
(B) Title: Dataset for bilinguals_Bilinguals are better than monolinguals in detecting manipulative discourse. Description: The file provides the raw data for the bilingual group of participants.
(C) Title: ´Bilinguals are better than monolinguals in detecting manipulative discourse'readme.txt. Description: This is the present file that provides information about the data and the way they were collected. This file also provides a reading key on how one should read the data. It also provides the task in order to facilitate the replication of the experiment.
Recommended citation: Leivada, E., N. Mitrofanova & M. Westergaard. 2020. Replication data for "Bilinguals are better than monolinguals in detecting manipulative discourse". Open Access Repository, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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