Bibliographic record
Abstract
Blackfoot, an Algonquian language spoken in northern Montana and Southern Alberta, reveals mechanisms of syllabification not well-described in Linguistic literature. The Blackfoot alveolar fricative /s/ can occupy any syllable position based on its duration [1]. Blackfoot's back fricative /x/ has a center of gravity based on the preceding vowel and always closes a syllable [2, 3]. Singleton plosives, affricates, nasals, and glides form syllable onsets – glottal plosives can also be codas. Geminates also form part of the nucleus of preceding syllables [2, 3]. Nasals, glides, and vowels all have the same amplitude and duration, but only the vowels form as tautosyllabic nuclei. The production-based mechanism that distinguishes vowels from nasals and glides must therefore include other information, which may be any of acoustical salience, vocal tract constriction, or visible mouth/jaw opening. Taken together, Blackfoot syllables appear to be constructed through an interaction of duration and continuant frication with vocal tract openness.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".