Artificial lntelligence and Copyright: Challenges and Regulatory Models
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- Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Copyright Law; Originality; Data Compliance; Global Governance
- Abstract: The explosive development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology has launched an all-around challenge to the traditional copyright legal system rooted in "human creativity". Its data-driven creative paradigm and algorithm-dominated communication logic have created structural conflicts with the subject theory, determination of rights objects, and interest distribution mechanism of the current copyright system. This paper cuts in from the perspectives of normative analysis and comparative law, deconstructs the copyright jurisprudential crisis triggered by AI technology, systematically combs the differentiated global governance paths, and proposes a Chinese solution of "technology-law-ethics" co-evolution.
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Practical Measures and Exploratory Thoughts on the Teaching of "Fundamentals of Materials Science" Course
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- Keywords: Fundamentals of Materials Science; Teaching Reform; Teaching Mode
- Abstract: The "Fundamentals of Materials Science" course is an important professional basic course for materials science majors. Based on the current difficulties and problems in teaching and combined with the actual situation of the curriculum setting of the materials science major in our university, this article explores the teaching mode of this course from aspects such as the optimization of teaching content, the comprehensive application of teaching methods, and the mutual assistance between after-class learning and classroom instruction. It emphasizes students' conscious and active learning and cultivates students' interest in materials science research and exploration, so as to achieve the goals of improving teaching quality and students' comprehensive learning ability.
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Development of a Neurology Word List: A Corpus-based Study
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Mingxian Li² Yujun Lee¹ and Dilin Liu³ / Language and Cognitive Science / 2021,6(1): 44−59 / 2022-04-21
- Keywords: academic English; English for specific purposes; subdiscipline word list; vocabulary learning
- Abstract: The research finding that vocabulary use is often discipline-bound (Hyland and Tse 2007) has demonstrated the need for discipline-specific word lists. Driven by this need, this study aims to explore the viability and validity of developing a subdiscipline word list – a vocabulary list in neurology, a subdiscipline of medicine. A neurology corpus (NeuroC) of 6,180,718 words was compiled drawing from 970 neurological research articles systematically chosen from 10 journals. Using AntConc and AntWordProfiler as corpus tools and applying rigorous frequency and range criteria, the study selects a total of 717 words as our Neurology Word List (NeuroWL). To test the validity of the NeuroWL, the coverages of the NeuroC by the NeuroWL and by Coxhead’s AWL are calculated and compared. The results reveal that the coverage by the NeuroWL (12.99%) almost doubles that by Coxhead’s Academic Word List (AWL) (6.06%). Additional analyses indicate that the NeuroWL shows an overlap of only 32.4% with the AWL, 53.6% with Wang et al.’s (2008) Medical Academic Word List (MAWL), and 43.9% with Yang’s (2015) Nursing Academic Word List (NAWL). These findings testify to the validity of the NeuroWL and its pedagogical significance to ESP/EFL teachers/learners in neurology and the need for developing subdiscipline word lists.
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The Construction of Acquisition Pattern of Sentence-final Particles
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Di Zhang* Qianli Xu and Robert W. Elliott / Language and Cognitive Science / 2019,5(1): 1−20 / 2019-08-26
- Keywords: Chinese children; factor analysis; functional modal particles; language acquisition; SPF acquisition
- Abstract: Based on a corpus of four Northern Chinese Mandarin-speaking subjects (children ranging from 1 to 4 years old), this study is intended to explore the subjects’ acquisition pattern of sentence-final particles (SFPs) and the dominant factors in their acquisition by analyzing the data of their time of SFP acquisition, mean length of utterance (MLU), the output frequency of the children’s SFPs, and the input frequency of the parents’ use of SFPs. It is found there are nine SFPs frequently used by the subjects, and the acquisition order is: tone particles > functional modal particles > general modal particles (“>” means earlier than). The dominant component affecting the overall internal language development of the subjects’ SFP is the functional modal particle. There is a correlation found between parent input and subject acquisition of SFPs, but with low significance. The abstract classification structure and the dominant order of sentence-final particles use are part of the children’s inherent and intrinsic linguistic knowledge and do not need to be learned. The role of adult discourse input frequency cannot exceed this principle of acquisition. It can only have a partial or individual corresponding influence on children’s language acquisition.
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Fictive Motion in English: An Elicitation Experiment
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Diego Caroca* Huili Wang and Hanning Guo / Language and Cognitive Science / 2018,4(1): 79−99 / 2018-08-26
- Keywords: cross-linguistic investigation; dynamism; embodiment; enactive perception
- Abstract: After Talmy’s (1983) seminal work, fictive motion sentences have received much attention in cognitive- and psychological-oriented linguistic studies. The reason for such interest lies in the rather paradoxical semantic phenomenon that fictive motion sentences exhibit: in them, verbs of motion are used to describe a static scene. Proponents of embodied theories of language comprehension see in this kind of expression a paradigmatic example of how linguistic meaning is determined by embodied cognitive mechanisms. However, these explanations tend to overlook important aspects of the linguistic realization of fictive motion dand reduce the phenomenon to a single cognitive motivation. Here, we replicate Blomberg’s (2014) picture elicitation experiment of fictive motion expressions in French, Thai, and Swedish for English in order to confirm to what extent these languages confirm the results of his investigation, namely, the bias towards dynamism of human cognition as one of the main motivational factors behind the use of fictive motion expressions (Talmy’s enactive perception hypothesis). Despite the fact that we were unable to replicate Blomberg’s main finding, our results still provide evidence in favor of the hypothesis of enactive perception and shows that the experiment design is suitable for further cross-linguistic investigation on fictive motion.
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