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Record W4250252904 · doi:10.1515/9780824842581-006

Chapter 2. The Languages of the Pacific

2020· book-chapter· en· W4250252904 on OpenAlex
John D. Lynch

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Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Hawaii Press eBooks · 2020
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLinguistic Variation and Morphology
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHistoryGeographyComputer scienceLinguisticsPhilosophy

Abstract

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The Languages of the Pacific When different people speak of the Pacific region, they often mean different things.In some senses, people from such Pacific Rim countries as Japan and Korea, Canada and the United States, and Colombia and Peru are as much a part of the region as are those from Papua New Guinea, Fiji, the Marshall Islands, Tonga, and so on.In this book, however, I use the term "the Pacific" to refer to the island countries and territories of the Pacific Basin, including Australia and New Zealand.This Pacific has traditionally been divided into four regions: Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and Australia (see map 2).Australia is clearly separate from the remainder of the Pacific culturally, ethnically, and linguistically.The other three regions are just as clearly not separate from oneanother according to all of these criteria.There is considerable ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity within each of these regions, and the boundaries usually drawn between them do not necessarily coincide with clear physical, cultural, or linguistic differences.These regions, and the boundaries drawn between them, are largely artifacts of the western propensity, even weakness, for classification, as the continuing and quite futile debate over whether Fijians are Polynesians or Melanesians illustrates.Having said this, however, I will nevertheless continue to use the terms "Melanesia," "Micronesia," and "Polynesia" to refer to different geographical areas within the Pacific basin, without prejudice to the relationships of the languages or the cultures of people of each region. How Many Languages?This book deals mainly with the indigenous languages of the Pacific region.There are many other languages that can be called "Pacific languages," for

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.990
Threshold uncertainty score0.422

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.032
GPT teacher head0.233
Teacher spread0.201 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it