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  1. Article ; Online: All social behavior is replication: Comment on "Replication and emergence in cultural transmission" by Monica Tamariz.

    Croft, William

    Physics of life reviews

    2019  Volume 30, Page(s) 72–73

    MeSH term(s) Cultural Evolution ; Social Behavior
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-08-29
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article ; Comment
    ZDB-ID 2148883-6
    ISSN 1873-1457 ; 1571-0645
    ISSN (online) 1873-1457
    ISSN 1571-0645
    DOI 10.1016/j.plrev.2019.08.018
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  2. Article ; Online: How individuals change language.

    Blythe, Richard A / Croft, William

    PloS one

    2021  Volume 16, Issue 6, Page(s) e0252582

    Abstract: Languages emerge and change over time at the population level though interactions between individual speakers. It is, however, hard to directly observe how a single speaker's linguistic innovation precipitates a population-wide change in the language, ... ...

    Abstract Languages emerge and change over time at the population level though interactions between individual speakers. It is, however, hard to directly observe how a single speaker's linguistic innovation precipitates a population-wide change in the language, and many theoretical proposals exist. We introduce a very general mathematical model that encompasses a wide variety of individual-level linguistic behaviours and provides statistical predictions for the population-level changes that result from them. This model allows us to compare the likelihood of empirically-attested changes in definite and indefinite articles in multiple languages under different assumptions on the way in which individuals learn and use language. We find that accounts of language change that appeal primarily to errors in childhood language acquisition are very weakly supported by the historical data, whereas those that allow speakers to change incrementally across the lifespan are more plausible, particularly when combined with social network effects.
    MeSH term(s) Computer Simulation ; Humans ; Language ; Language Development ; Learning ; Models, Theoretical ; Poisson Distribution ; Population ; Time Factors
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-06-02
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2267670-3
    ISSN 1932-6203 ; 1932-6203
    ISSN (online) 1932-6203
    ISSN 1932-6203
    DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0252582
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  3. Article ; Online: What language is the language-ready brain ready for?: Comment on "Towards a Computational Comparative Neuroprimatology: Framing the language-ready brain" by Michael A. Arbib.

    Croft, William

    Physics of life reviews

    2016  Volume 16, Page(s) 66–68

    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Brain ; Humans ; Language ; Macaca
    Language English
    Publishing date 2016-03
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article ; Comment
    ZDB-ID 2148883-6
    ISSN 1873-1457 ; 1571-0645
    ISSN (online) 1873-1457
    ISSN 1571-0645
    DOI 10.1016/j.plrev.2016.02.005
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  4. Article ; Online: Social factors in the cultural evolution of language. Comment on "Modeling the cultural evolution of language" by Luc Steels.

    Croft, William

    Physics of life reviews

    2011  Volume 8, Issue 4, Page(s) 359–360

    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Cultural Evolution ; Humans ; Language ; Models, Theoretical
    Language English
    Publishing date 2011-12
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Comment ; Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2148883-6
    ISSN 1873-1457 ; 1571-0645
    ISSN (online) 1873-1457
    ISSN 1571-0645
    DOI 10.1016/j.plrev.2011.10.018
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  5. Book: Verbs

    Croft, William

    aspects and causal structure

    2012  

    Abstract: This book presents a model of event structure for the analysis of aspectual constructions and argument structure constructions in English and other languages. Representing the culmination of two decades of the author's research and thought, it explores ... ...

    Author's details William Croft
    Abstract "This book presents a model of event structure for the analysis of aspectual constructions and argument structure constructions in English and other languages. Representing the culmination of two decades of the author's research and thought, it explores the contribution of semantics to the argument-structure and tense-aspect constructions in which verbs occur, integrating the aspectual and causal structures of events. The argument is framed in relation to current and previous scholarship and takes full account of diachronic and usage-based research. Professor Croft's analysis encompasses the full range of English verb classes and is enriched throughout by a strong typological dimension: the syntax and semantics of verbs are always seen from a crosslinguistic perspective. This allows the author to demonstrate the generality of his theory and to show how it breaks new ground in predicting and explaining linguistic facts. The subject of the book is at the heart of current work in syntax and semantics and the interface between them. It will interest semanticists, syntacticians and cognitive and functional-typological linguists. The transparency of the author's style and his avoidance of theory-dependent constructs will extend its appeal to linguists of all theoretical stripes."--Publisher's website
    Keywords Grammar, Comparative and general/Aspect ; Grammar, Comparative and general/Verb
    Language English
    Size XVII, 448 S., graph. Darst.
    Publisher Oxford Univ. Press
    Publishing place Oxford u.a.
    Document type Book
    Note Literaturverz. S. [408] - 428. - Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
    ISBN 9780199248582 ; 9780199248599 ; 0199248583 ; 0199248591
    Database Library catalogue of the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), Hannover

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  6. Book: Verbs

    Croft, William

    aspects and causal structure

    2012  

    Abstract: This book presents a model of event structure for the analysis of aspectual constructions and argument structure constructions in English and other languages. Representing the culmination of two decades of the author's research and thought, it explores ... ...

    Author's details William Croft
    Abstract "This book presents a model of event structure for the analysis of aspectual constructions and argument structure constructions in English and other languages. Representing the culmination of two decades of the author's research and thought, it explores the contribution of semantics to the argument-structure and tense-aspect constructions in which verbs occur, integrating the aspectual and causal structures of events. The argument is framed in relation to current and previous scholarship and takes full account of diachronic and usage-based research. Professor Croft's analysis encompasses the full range of English verb classes and is enriched throughout by a strong typological dimension: the syntax and semantics of verbs are always seen from a crosslinguistic perspective. This allows the author to demonstrate the generality of his theory and to show how it breaks new ground in predicting and explaining linguistic facts. The subject of the book is at the heart of current work in syntax and semantics and the interface between them. It will interest semanticists, syntacticians and cognitive and functional-typological linguists. The transparency of the author's style and his avoidance of theory-dependent constructs will extend its appeal to linguists of all theoretical stripes."--Publisher's website
    Keywords Grammar, Comparative and general/Aspect ; Grammar, Comparative and general/Verb
    Language English
    Size XVII, 448 S., graph. Darst.
    Publisher Oxford Univ. Press
    Publishing place Oxford u.a.
    Document type Book
    Note Literaturverz. S. [408] - 428. - Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
    ISBN 9780199248582 ; 9780199248599 ; 0199248583 ; 0199248591
    Database Former special subject collection: coastal and deep sea fishing

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  7. Book ; Online: Differential Privacy Via a Truncated and Normalized Laplace Mechanism

    Croft, William Lee / Sack, Jörg-Rüdiger / Shi, Wei

    2019  

    Abstract: When querying databases containing sensitive information, the privacy of individuals stored in the database has to be guaranteed. Such guarantees are provided by differentially private mechanisms which add controlled noise to the query responses. However, ...

    Abstract When querying databases containing sensitive information, the privacy of individuals stored in the database has to be guaranteed. Such guarantees are provided by differentially private mechanisms which add controlled noise to the query responses. However, most such mechanisms do not take into consideration the valid range of the query being posed. Thus, noisy responses that fall outside of this range may potentially be produced. To rectify this and therefore improve the utility of the mechanism, the commonly used Laplace distribution can be truncated to the valid range of the query and then normalized. However, such a data-dependent operation of normalization leaks additional information about the true query response thereby violating the differential privacy guarantee. Here, we propose a new method which preserves the differential privacy guarantee through a careful determination of an appropriate scaling parameter for the Laplace distribution. We also generalize the privacy guarantee in the context of the Laplace distribution to account for data-dependent normalization factors and study this guarantee for different classes of range constraint configurations. We provide derivations of the optimal scaling parameter (i.e., the minimal value that preserves differential privacy) for each class or provide an approximation thereof. As a consequence of this work, one can use the Laplace distribution to answer queries in a range-adherent and differentially private manner.
    Keywords Computer Science - Databases ; Computer Science - Cryptography and Security
    Subject code 005
    Publishing date 2019-11-01
    Publishing country us
    Document type Book ; Online
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  8. Book: Canticles and anthems with orchestra

    Croft, William / Burrows, Donald

    (Musica Britannica ; 91)

    2011  

    Title translation Werke
    Author's details William Croft. Ed. by Donald Burrows
    Series title Musica Britannica ; 91
    Language English ; French ; German
    Size LI, 234 S., Faks., 33 cm
    Edition [Partitur]
    Publisher Stainer and Bell
    Publishing place London
    Document type Book
    Note Text engl. - Vorw. engl., franz. und dt. - Einl. und Kommentar engl. ; Die Vorlage enth. insgesamt 6 Werke. ; Enth. außerdem 3 Appendizes mit verschiedenen Fassungen Crofts Werke
    ISBN 9780852499177 ; 0852499175
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  9. Book: Typology and universals

    Croft, William

    (Cambridge textbooks in linguistics)

    2004  

    Author's details William Croft
    Series title Cambridge textbooks in linguistics
    Language English
    Size XXV, 341 S, graph. Darst., Kt, 24 cm
    Edition 2. ed., reprinted
    Publisher Cambridge Univ. Press
    Publishing place Cambridge u.a.
    Document type Book
    Note Literaturverz. S. 291 - 312 ; Previous ed.: 1990
    ISBN 0521004993 ; 0521808847 ; 9780521004992 ; 9780521808842
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  10. Book: Typology and universals

    Croft, William

    (Cambridge textbooks in linguistics)

    2003  

    Author's details William Croft
    Series title Cambridge textbooks in linguistics
    Language English
    Size XXV, 341 S, graph. Darst., Kt, 24 cm
    Edition 2. ed
    Publisher Cambridge Univ. Press
    Publishing place Cambridge u.a.
    Document type Book
    Note Literaturverz. S. 291 - 312 ; Previous ed.: 1990
    ISBN 0521004993 ; 0521808847 ; 9780521004992 ; 9780521808842
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