{"title":"A cross-linguistic perspective on the relationship between syntactic complexity and Chinese L2 writing quality","authors":"Yuxin Hao , Sijia Guo , Shuai Bin , Haitao Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101241","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101241","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Existing studies have shown that when learners with different L1s learn the L2, their L2 syntactic complexity will show different differences due to the influence of different L1s. However, previous research mainly stays at the macro level of L1 as an influencing factor. In addition, no research has discussed the impact of L1 on the relationship between SC and L2 writing quality. Through a linear mixed-effects model, our study examined whether large-grained and fine-grained indicators predict the quality of learners' Chinese L2 writing differently depending on the learners' L1s. The study found that: (1) The whole model of large-grained indicators explained 51.96 % of the variance (fixed effects: 39.17 %; random effects: 12.65 %). The relationship between the mean length of sentence, mean length of clause, mean length of T-unit, clauses per sentence, T-units per sentence, and dependency distance indicators and scores was moderated by L1s. (2) The whole model of fine-grained indicators explained 59.6 % of the variance (fixed effects: 53.9 %; random effects: 5.4 %). The ratio of subject-verb, adverbial, and coordinate were moderated by the L1 and showed differences between groups. We found that even those indicators that are common across languages may show different effects when predicting scores due to different L1s (subject-verb, adverbial).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47934,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Second Language Writing","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101241"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145027799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sage Vanier, Patrick Morgan Ritchie, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, Dana Lepofsky
{"title":"Living Archaeological Sites: Documenting and Uplifting 2,700 Years of Cultural-Ecological Heritage in Sts’ailes Territory, SW British Columbia","authors":"Sage Vanier, Patrick Morgan Ritchie, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, Dana Lepofsky","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2025.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2025.7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study advocates for shifting archaeological praxes to ones that include ecological heritage—biotic features of a landscape that hold cultural, educational, and historical significance. Historically, archaeologists have tended to overlook ecological heritage, such as “living sites,” emphasizing built heritage and manufactured tools and features over ecosystems shaped and stewarded by people. We bring together archaeological, ecological, and archival data, combined with the memories of Sts’ailes Elders and knowledge holders, to document the long-term history of one anthropogenic landscape in Sts’ailes territory of southwestern British Columbia. Our data show that people shaped and enhanced local vegetation processes over time, resulting in forest garden ecosystems that continue to grow both within and outside of other archaeological evidence of past lives lived. By tracing the historical ecology of a single locale over three millennia, we consider the extent to which ecological heritage such as forest gardens can be documented, analyzed, reimagined, and revitalized in community contexts as continuously living and used sites.</p>","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"131 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145017545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Relational accountability in AI-driven pharmaceutical practices: an ethics approach to bias, inequity and structural harm.","authors":"Irfan Biswas","doi":"10.1136/jme-2025-110913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2025-110913","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into pharmaceutical practices raises critical ethical concerns, including algorithmic bias, data commodification and global health inequities. While existing AI ethics frameworks emphasise transparency and fairness, they often overlook structural vulnerabilities tied to race, gender and socioeconomic status. This paper introduces relational accountability-a feminist ethics framework-to critique AI-driven pharmaceutical practices, arguing that corporate reliance on biased algorithms exacerbates inequalities by design. Through case studies of Pfizer-IBM Watson's immuno-oncology collaboration and Google DeepMind's National Health Service partnership, we demonstrate how AI entrenches disparities in drug pricing, access and development. We propose a causal pathway linking biased training data to inequitable health outcomes, supported by empirical evidence of AI-driven price discrimination and exclusionary clinical trial recruitment algorithms. Policy solutions, including algorithmic audits and equity-centred data governance, are advanced to realign AI with the ethical imperative. This work bridges feminist bioethics and AI governance, offering a novel lens to address structural harm in healthcare innovation.</p>","PeriodicalId":16317,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Ethics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145033548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Patricia G. Markert, Lisa Hodgetts, Marie-Pier Cantin, Solène Mallet Gauthier, Natasha Lyons, Kisha Supernant, John R. Welch, Adrianna Wiley, Joshua Dent
{"title":"Confronting Archaeology’s “Gray Zones”","authors":"Patricia G. Markert, Lisa Hodgetts, Marie-Pier Cantin, Solène Mallet Gauthier, Natasha Lyons, Kisha Supernant, John R. Welch, Adrianna Wiley, Joshua Dent","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2024.81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2024.81","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drinking culture. What happens in the field. It was just a joke. Don’t rock the boat. Archaeology staggers under the weight of its many “gray zones,” contexts of disciplinary culture where boundaries, relationships, ethical responsibilities, and expectations of behavior are rendered “blurry.” Gray zones rely on an ethos of silence and tacit cooperation rooted in structures of white supremacy, colonialism, heteropatriarchy, and ableism. In the gray zone, subtle and overt forms of abuse become coded as normal, inevitable, impossible, or the unfortunate cost of entry to the discipline. Drawing on narrative survey responses and interviews collected by the Working Group on Equity and Diversity in Canadian Archaeology in 2019 and 2020, we examine the concept of the gray zone in three intersecting contexts: the field, archaeology’s drinking culture, and relationships. The work of making archaeology more equitable relies on our ability to confront gray zones directly and collectively. We offer several practical recommendations while recognizing that bureaucratic solutions alone will not be sufficient. Change will require a shift in archaeological culture—a collective project that pulls gray zones into the open and prioritizes principles of care.</p>","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145017531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Friedrich Max Müller's Rubicon: Historicism and empiricism in the Victorian sciences of language and mind.","authors":"Kristine Palmieri","doi":"10.1017/S0269889725100707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269889725100707","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper reevaluates Friedrich Max Müller's interactions with his British detractors from the early 1860s to the early 1890s. By offering a re-examination of their disputes concerning language and mind, it first and foremost illuminates a transformation in the research methods, standards of evidence, and forms of explanation that were seen as scientifically legitimate in the human sciences in late Victorian Britain. To use Müller's language, this entailed a shift in the balance of power between \"historical\" and \"theoretical\" schools of thought, which came to privilege the latter over the former. No less importantly, this paper also demonstrates how the history of philology can contribute to the history of science by revealing the extent to which Müller and his opponents were ultimately searching for the same thing - knowledge about human origins and development. Additionally, by taking seriously Müller's arguments as a philologist, this paper refutes the pernicious view that his objections to Darwin's account of languages were motivated by his religious beliefs.</p>","PeriodicalId":49562,"journal":{"name":"Science in Context","volume":" ","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145024633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntiquityPub Date : 2025-09-09DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2025.10205
Tomasz Derda, Piotr Zakrzewski
{"title":"Church N1 at ‘Marea’/Philoxenite: an outstanding example of Late Antique sacral architecture","authors":"Tomasz Derda, Piotr Zakrzewski","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2025.10205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.10205","url":null,"abstract":"<p><img href=\"S0003598X25102056_figAb.png\" mimesubtype=\"png\" mimetype=\"image\" orientation=\"\" position=\"float\" src=\"https://static.cambridge.org//content/id/urn%3Acambridge.org%3Aid%3Aarticle%3AS0003598X25102056/resource/name/optimisedImage-png-S0003598X25102056_figAb.jpg?pub-status=live\" type=\"\"/></p>","PeriodicalId":8058,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145017194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Extraordinary Claims, Extraordinary Evidence: The Coronado Expedition’s 1541 Suya Settlement","authors":"Deni J. Seymour","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2025.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2025.10","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The first Coronado expedition site discovered south of Zuni, in Arizona, represents the first European settlement in the American Southwest—a place called Suya (San Geronimo III). Investigations have revealed an impressive assortment of early sixteenth-century artifacts and features. The structured layout is reflected in concentrations of both household- and battle-related artifacts. Artifacts and substantial adobe-and-stone structures indicate a diversity of residential activities and the presence of a sizable and varied group of people who expected to stay. They brought a range of household goods that are not appropriate for a traveling expedition but that are of the type expected in a settled context where social maneuvering and status display characterized daily life. Suya’s occupants had access to a range of European household goods and weaponry, including the most expensive guns (matchlocks, wheel locks, crossbows, bronze cannon). Weapons and ammunition provide evidence of a battle, as do their fragmentary nature and clustered distribution. Documents convey that this was the first successful Native American uprising in the continental United States. This site exhibited attributes characteristic of a Coronado expedition settlement, so viable alternative explanations were sought, including other entradas. Work has proceeded for five years, revealing the richness, extent, and complexity of the site.</p>","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"103 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145017527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kelsey E. Hanson, Kathleen Barvick, Rebecca Harkness, Evan Giomi, Scott G. Ortman, Barbara J. Mills
{"title":"From Exclusive to Inclusive: The Changing Role of Plaza Spaces in the Ancestral Pueblo World (AD 800–1550)","authors":"Kelsey E. Hanson, Kathleen Barvick, Rebecca Harkness, Evan Giomi, Scott G. Ortman, Barbara J. Mills","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2025.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2025.4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The plaza is one of the most important elements of the built environment for bringing people together in the Pueblo World of the US Southwest. Yet, the myriad ways in which plazas were designed and used vary greatly through time. Although plazas have been significant components of Ancestral Pueblo site layouts for hundreds of years, nearly every research study has been based on the enclosed plazas of the Pueblo IV period. In this article, we evaluate variation in 861 plazas from the Pueblo World dating from AD 800 to 1550. Our analysis of settlement size, plaza area, and degrees of plaza accessibility demonstrates that the spacious plazas emblematic of the Pueblo IV period were built to accommodate more people than the resident population, suggesting the origins of the feast-day-type ceremonialism seen in contemporary Pueblo communities. Our analysis suggests that this is a relatively recent phenomenon, because plazas in earlier Chaco great house communities were built to be more exclusionary, and thus activities held within them were more restricted.</p>","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145017534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Landscapes, Religion, and Social Change in Pueblo History","authors":"Robert S. Weiner, Scott G. Ortman","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2025.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2025.13","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article, we explore transformations and continuities in cosmology and cultural landscape structure across Pueblo history in the US Southwest. Many researchers have directly compared the archaeology of the society centered at Chaco Canyon (ca. AD 850–1140) in northwestern New Mexico with ethnographic documentation of Pueblo communities from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This approach makes it difficult to understand how cultural transformation played out in the intervening centuries. Here, we investigate this history by comparing Kin Nizhoni, a Chaco-era Great House community in the Red Mesa Valley, with Wiyo’owingeh, a post-Chacoan community in the Rio Grande Valley. We find that the built environments of both sites expressed similar cosmological principles, but architectural expressions of these concepts became less explicitly marked over time. We also find that this similar cosmology was mapped onto different social structures, with a focus on elite architecture in the Chaco era as opposed to communal dwellings with spatially separated shrines in later Pueblo contexts. We close by proposing a connection between the functions of Chacoan Great Houses and later Pueblo World Quarter Shrines. Overall, our findings underscore the utility of cultural landscape studies for tracing relationships between religion and society across North American Indigenous histories.</p>","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145017530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Putting Trust to the Test: Making Sense of Human–Machine Interactions on TikTok","authors":"Andreas Schellewald","doi":"10.1177/20563051251370905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251370905","url":null,"abstract":"People’s interaction with online content is increasingly facilitated by intelligent user interfaces and artificial agents. In this article, I explore this shift by drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with users of the TikTok app. More specifically, I write on their interactions with the TikTok algorithm as a form of human–machine interaction and through the lens of trust. Along concrete ethnographic data, this article lays out the multifaceted process in which participants negotiated trust in the TikTok algorithm as an interaction partner in their everyday pursuits for relaxation and entertainment. Understanding trust as something deeply relational, mediating the position that one takes to another, this article outlines the constitutive embodied and affective dimensions of trust. It shows how participants dealt with feelings of their trust in the TikTok algorithm being put to the test, as well as how they negotiated their distance and closeness to it accordingly. By doing so, this article will demonstrate how trust functions a key mediator of meaningful human–machine interaction – shaping not just meaningful outcomes but also meaningful processes of interaction. From this angle, this article closes with an argument for research on the foundational role of trust in human–machine interaction, specifically in ways that look beyond the cognitive processes of judging trust and broadening the scope towards the material and cultural contexts in which people trust others.","PeriodicalId":47920,"journal":{"name":"Social Media + Society","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145056752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}