How did Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov's cat help him decode Mayan?
Aug 12, 2023 · According to Wikipedia, Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov, the person who decoded the Mayan script ...listed his cat Asya as a co-author on his work, but the editors always removed …
What's the opposite of semantic parsing? - Linguistics Stack …
Jun 24, 2022 · I'm only aware of generic terms like decoder (from encoder/decoder models of machine learning) or language generation but not for a specific term for the particular situation …
Homemade ASR decoding - Linguistics Stack Exchange
Jul 18, 2017 · I am looking for a good decoder to pair my acoustic model output with my language model output. Since my acoustic model outputs a string of phonemes they need to be fuzzy …
What defines a language? - Linguistics Stack Exchange
10 I'm reading around multimodal text and many of the readings I have come across (Kress, Halliday) seem to define language as spoken or written communication. That seems to …
What tools are there to measure aspects of language?
May 22, 2023 · So: I think you are looking for a language that is highly explicit and grammaticalized - like Ithkuil, it comes pre-loaded with tons of syntactic machinery for …
Jespersen's cycle in the Korean language - Did it ever happen?
Dec 17, 2024 · Jespersen’s cycle is not a given or requirement – it’s just a series of developments that have been observed to occur more frequently than random chance would predict. I don’t …
Do migrant populations tend to preserve old features of their …
Sep 6, 2025 · Slavic languages like Russian, also preserve some conservativeness, with some ahem.. questionable examples. Is it a tendency of migrant populations to preserve older …
Are Flora and Fauna unreliable in language reconstruction?
Mar 30, 2025 · 2 I have glimpsed a paper, perhaps it was a review, that spoke negatively of the use of animal and plant names in the reconstruction of language families. This has impressed …
terminology - Is it possible to define a concrete object with …
Jun 30, 2024 · And words are language specific. There may be gaps when translating to another language, but that doesn't mean that "red" in English doesn't have a clear meaning: there are …
Ease of L2 acquisition of SOV and SVO/VSO word order
Jul 10, 2019 · These languages or vaguely-language-like-things are basically head initial and have SVO as their dominant word order. I'm curious as to whether this is the "best" choice if …