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Linguistics in the Netherlands 2023
Edited by Sterre Leufkens and Marco Bril
[Linguistics in the Netherlands 40] 2023
► pp. 301–308
Essays ‘LOT Big Questions Prize’

Minds

Big questions for linguistics in the age of AI

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Article outline
  • Multimodality
  • Interoperability
  • Non-opacity
  • Diversity
  • Sociality
  • LOT Essay Prize
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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Published online: 3 November 2023
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