Linguistics Vanguard语言学先锋
Linguistics Vanguard(英文缩写 LINGUIST VANGUARD),ISSN 2199-174X,eISSN 2199-174X,中文译名:语言学先锋 是一本学术期刊。本页汇总该期刊的最新影响因子、分区信息以及最新收录于 PubMed 的文献,帮助您快速了解期刊全貌。
发文量统计区间：2025-10-01 至 2026-09-30，按本站收录文献的发表日期统计。
期刊介绍
历年影响因子趋势
| JCR 数据年份 | 影响因子 | JCR 分区 |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 0.896 | Q3 |
| 2022 | 1.100 | Q3 |
| 2023 | 1.100 | Q2 |
| 2024 | 0.900 | Q3 |
| 2025 | 0.800 | Q3 |
Linguistics Vanguard 最新收录文献
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1. (R)NNs too expressive?: No relationship between neural architectures' theoretical expressivity and their empirical performance.
PMID:日期:2026-03-09This work investigates why recurrent neural networks (RNNs) tend to learn phonological patterns that are unattested or dispreferred by humans. Specifically, we explore the hypothesis that their over-generation is caused by their excess expressive capacity - they are beyond the limited complexity class that contains the set of attested phonological patterns. We compared these over-expressive RNNs against the weaker convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on a battery of string recognition tasks. We find that the expressivity of a model's architecture does not predict the string classes that it excels at recognizing. Instead, we suggest that CNNs' position-invariant biases better explain their successes in our experiment.
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2. Semantic granularity in derivation.
PMID:日期:2025-12-02This paper investigates the degree of semantic precision in derivational processes, a crucial yet underexplored aspect of word-formation semantics that influences our understanding of compositionality, competition, and polysemy in derivation. The study focuses on the case of verb-to-noun derivation in French, using both manual analysis and computational techniques to determine the level of semantic granularity that best captures the semantic properties of derivational processes. A sample of 2,190 derived nouns formed with 30 deverbal processes is manually analyzed, distinguishing between ontological and relational semantic types, with three levels of granularity applied to each. The various combinations of semantic types and granularities are tested against computational representations of derivational processes generated from distributional semantic models. The results indicate that not only relational but also ontological types participate in the semantics of derivational processes, and that derivation operates at a fine level of semantic granularity. More broadly, the study illustrates how expert analysis of large datasets can be fruitfully associated with computational methods to address key research questions in theoretical linguistics. It also advocates for a close integration of lexical semantics and derivational morphology in the study of complex words.
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3. Is deeper always better? Replacing linear mappings with deep learning networks in the Discriminative Lexicon Model.
PMID:日期:2025-11-13Recently, deep learning models have increasingly been used in cognitive modelling of language. This study asks whether deep learning can help us to better understand the learning problem that needs to be solved by speakers, above and beyond linear methods. We utilize the Discriminative Lexicon Model introduced by Baayen and colleagues, which models comprehension and production with mappings between numeric form and meaning vectors. While so far, these mappings have been linear (linear discriminative learning; LDL), in the present study we replace them with deep dense neural networks (deep discriminative learning; DDL). We find that DDL affords more accurate mappings for large and diverse datasets from English and Dutch, but not necessarily for Estonian and Taiwan Mandarin. DDL outperforms LDL in particular for words with pseudo-morphological structure such as . Applied to average reaction times, we find that DDL is outperformed by frequency-informed linear mappings (FIL). However, DDL trained in a frequency-informed way ("frequency-informed" deep learning; FIDDL) substantially outperforms FIL. Finally, while linear mappings can very effectively be updated from trial-to-trial to model incremental lexical learning, deep mappings cannot do so as effectively. At present, both linear and deep mappings are informative for understanding language.
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4. Instance memory models as a general computational framework for exploring language processing: bringing the lexicon to life.
PMID:日期:2025-08-29Instance models have been successfully applied to a range of problems including memory, language, attention, learning, action, decision-making, and categorization. According to instance theory, the individual experience constitutes the fundamental unit of knowledge and knowledge of the general emerges during parallel retrieval from memory. Until recently, applications of instance theory to the problem of language were constrained to small and contrived laboratory experiments. However, recent advances in large-scale computational modeling have allowed the approach to be applied at scale to the large and complicated problem of natural language. With those demonstrations now in hand, we argue that the framework can present an articulate mechanistic underbelly to usage-based theories of language that highlights the role of specific language experience in general language behavior. Overall, this article argues that instance memory models provide an opportunity to gain insight into and deepen our understanding of language as a dynamic and contextually embedded process, serving to bridge the gap between cognitive psychology and the language sciences.
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5. From sociolinguistic perception to strategic action in the study of social meaning.
PMID:日期:2024-12-17We present a new paradigm investigating social meaning through strategic action. More precisely, we present an experimental technique (a textual role-playing game developed with the Ren'Py engine), which we view as an enrichment of the matched-guise technique (MGT). In this paradigm the explicit response scales of the MGT are substituted for strategic choices in a video game. We argue that studying social meaning experimentally through looking at its effects on participants' actions is more interactive than the classic paradigm. We compare the results from both the video game and a more classic version of the paradigm based on scales, conducted with the same linguistic materials, and we show that researchers who use only the MGT may be missing some crucial aspects of the social meanings of the linguistic phenomena they are studying. We also argue that a paradigm based on strategic action is better equipped to study the social, political, and economic outcomes for the users of those linguistic variants, and therefore to contribute to understanding phenomena like linguistic discrimination.
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6. Sign recognition: the effect of parameters and features in sign mispronunciations.
PMID:日期:2024-11-25We investigate the degree to which mispronounced signs can be accommodated by signers of French Sign Language (LSF). Using an offline judgment task, we examine both the individual contributions of three parameters - handshape, movement, and location - to sign recognition, and the impact of the individual features that were manipulated to obtain the mispronounced signs. Results indicate that signers judge mispronounced handshapes to be less damaging for well-formedness than mispronounced locations or movements. In addition to this macro-effect of parameter, individual features are found to carry different weights during sign recognition, mirroring what has been reported for phonological features in spoken languages. Together, these results thus further support an underlying a-modal phonological architecture for human language, including feature-based phonological representations.
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7. Re-taking the field: resuming in-person fieldwork amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
PMID:日期:2024-09-13Italy was among the first countries in Europe to be heavily impacted by the outbreak of COVID-19. Northern Italy and Lombardy, in particular, were the most affected areas. In September 2021, the team of "AIS, the digital turn" (AISdt), a project whose objectives include collecting data in 50 locations in Italy, across Lombardy and Piedmont, resumed in-person data collection. Given the field of the investigation and the profile required for the informants (speakers over 60), the decision came only after a long examination of the right conditions and the necessary measures. The paper is intended as a reference text of field investigations amid the pandemic: based on the experience of the AISdt project, it recounts the preparation required by the new modality of fieldwork, the protocols put in place to ensure the safety of all participants before and during the interviews, and the response received from the informants.
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8. {"_":": NP versus PP time adjuncts in the history of English.","i":["Alternations (at) that time"]}
PMID:日期:2024-01-09The present paper investigates variation between nominal and prepositional adjuncts of time as in, for example, [] . The main goals are (i) to assess potential changes in the distribution of these variants in the history of English, specifically from Middle English to Late Modern English (1150-1914), and (ii) to test which factors most strongly impact the choice between the two variants, with a focus on the impact of different complexity measures. To address these questions, the paper makes use of data from the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpora of Historical English (PPCME2; PPCEME; PPCMBE), explored by means of logistic regression modelling. The results suggest that there is no dramatic, sweeping change in this abstract alternation over time, but that this variation may mainly plays out on lower, noun-specific levels.
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9. Differential indexing in Kamang: a viewpoint alternation.
PMID:日期:2024-01-01In Kamang (Alor-Pantar, Indonesia), some verbs alternate between indexing the S or P argument with a prefix (from several different series) and occurring unprefixed; that is, Kamang has differential argument indexing. Through a qualitative study of a spoken-language corpus, this paper investigates the alternation between one of the prefix series and zero-marking. Previously described as indicating increased patientivity on intransitive motion and posture verbs, the alternation is here analysed in terms of a shift in event view: unprefixed verbs express events holistically, while prefixed verbs shift the viewpoint towards the "elaboration phase", the temporal and causal middle and end of an event. Elaboration constructions are associated with resultative and completive semantics and, relatedly, greater affectedness of the undergoer argument. Cross-linguistically, such constructions (e.g., resultatives and middles) are frequently subject to lexical restrictions, and the same applies to the Kamang alternation.
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10. Validation of two measures for assessing English vocabulary knowledge on web-based testing platforms: long-form assessments.
PMID:日期:2023-09-13The goal of the current work was to develop and validate web-based measures for assessing English vocabulary knowledge. Two existing paper-and-pencil assessments, the Vocabulary Size Test (VST) and the Word Familiarity Test (WordFAM), were modified for web-based administration. In Experiment 1, participants ( = 100) completed the web-based VST. In Experiment 2, participants ( = 100) completed the web-based WordFAM. Results from these experiments confirmed that both tasks (1) could be completed online, (2) showed expected sensitivity to English frequency patterns, (3) exhibited high internal consistency, and (4) showed an expected range of item discrimination scores, with low frequency items exhibiting higher item discrimination scores compared to high frequency items. This work provides open-source English vocabulary knowledge assessments with normative data that researchers can use to foster high quality data collection in web-based environments.