Thinking about language: Chomsky – Geoff Poole
... deviant utterances. More seriously, many aspects of linguistic structure are exclusively mental and have no physical manifestation; they are therefore not reflected in the primary linguistic data. For these reasons, the child’s primary linguistic data are to be regarded as impoverished in relation ...
... deviant utterances. More seriously, many aspects of linguistic structure are exclusively mental and have no physical manifestation; they are therefore not reflected in the primary linguistic data. For these reasons, the child’s primary linguistic data are to be regarded as impoverished in relation ...
Desired articles in the philosophy of language If you are interested
... Desired articles in the philosophy of language If you are interested in writing an encyclopedia article on one of these topics or on some other topic, contact the IEP area editor Paul Saka at paul-sake@live.com. All expected due dates for completion of an article need to be 12 months or less. ambigu ...
... Desired articles in the philosophy of language If you are interested in writing an encyclopedia article on one of these topics or on some other topic, contact the IEP area editor Paul Saka at paul-sake@live.com. All expected due dates for completion of an article need to be 12 months or less. ambigu ...
mt2revupdated
... Which sign language results indicate a critical period for language? (Think about both cognitive findings and brain findings!) What does it mean that words are arbitrary? What does it mean that words are symbolic? Outline two major ideas about mental representations of concepts (i.e., what’s contain ...
... Which sign language results indicate a critical period for language? (Think about both cognitive findings and brain findings!) What does it mean that words are arbitrary? What does it mean that words are symbolic? Outline two major ideas about mental representations of concepts (i.e., what’s contain ...
Sample
... 2-15 B. tact 2-16 C. mand 2-17 A. Chomsky 2-18 A. Based on all the data now available, we have no reason to believe that nonhuman animals are capable of acquiring and using a language directly comparable to human language. 2-19 D. Transformations 2-20 C. operant 2-21 D. reinforcement has occurred 2- ...
... 2-15 B. tact 2-16 C. mand 2-17 A. Chomsky 2-18 A. Based on all the data now available, we have no reason to believe that nonhuman animals are capable of acquiring and using a language directly comparable to human language. 2-19 D. Transformations 2-20 C. operant 2-21 D. reinforcement has occurred 2- ...
ppt
... • To answer the specialization question, we need to know – Why some areas compute some things, and not others – What this means neurobiologically – How ‘flexible’ the correlations are ...
... • To answer the specialization question, we need to know – Why some areas compute some things, and not others – What this means neurobiologically – How ‘flexible’ the correlations are ...
Optimality Theory and Human Sentence Processing: The
... called ‘grammar’) and a model of performance (i.e., traditionally called ‘parser’) at the same time. It is the aim of this paper to show that such a model is viable, and even necessary, for the understanding of a linguistic phenomenon that otherwise seems to resist an adequate theoretical analysis, ...
... called ‘grammar’) and a model of performance (i.e., traditionally called ‘parser’) at the same time. It is the aim of this paper to show that such a model is viable, and even necessary, for the understanding of a linguistic phenomenon that otherwise seems to resist an adequate theoretical analysis, ...
Optimality Theory and Human Sentence Processing: The Case of Coordination
... somehow special, and distinct from all other structures, especially in the syntactic domain. This exceptional position for coordination is implicit in works such as Ross (1967) and others, but has recently surfaced in more explicit terms. For example, the syntactic analyses of coordination such as d ...
... somehow special, and distinct from all other structures, especially in the syntactic domain. This exceptional position for coordination is implicit in works such as Ross (1967) and others, but has recently surfaced in more explicit terms. For example, the syntactic analyses of coordination such as d ...
The Language of Science and the Science of Language: Chomsky
... This tension turns out to be deeply implicated in conceptual issues that Chomsky downplays but that are evident in many ways at the margins of his works. It is clear that for Chomsky, science means structure; structure is found in the “language organ” and language itself is structure, or linguisti ...
... This tension turns out to be deeply implicated in conceptual issues that Chomsky downplays but that are evident in many ways at the margins of his works. It is clear that for Chomsky, science means structure; structure is found in the “language organ” and language itself is structure, or linguisti ...
Phraseology and linguistic theory
... issues of identifying and classifying phraseologisms as well as integrating them into theoretical research and practical application has a much more profound influence on researchers and their agendas in many different sub-disciplines of linguistics as well as in language learning, acquisition, and ...
... issues of identifying and classifying phraseologisms as well as integrating them into theoretical research and practical application has a much more profound influence on researchers and their agendas in many different sub-disciplines of linguistics as well as in language learning, acquisition, and ...
How language changed the genes: toward an explicit account of the
... Our point of departure is a theoretical reappraisal of Chomsky’s long-standing hypothesis of the autonomy of syntactic structures from meaning considerations. As we have already indicated, recent empirical research on the interface between syntactic and semantic representations consistently demonstr ...
... Our point of departure is a theoretical reappraisal of Chomsky’s long-standing hypothesis of the autonomy of syntactic structures from meaning considerations. As we have already indicated, recent empirical research on the interface between syntactic and semantic representations consistently demonstr ...
Syntactic frame and verb bias in aphasia: Plausibility judgments of
... not be uniformly easy to process. Rather, verbs that are rarely transitive should induce greater comprehension difficulty than verbs that are frequently transitive. As argued in Menn (2000), the basic assumptions underlying the definition of canonical form have not been seriously tested. Furthermore, m ...
... not be uniformly easy to process. Rather, verbs that are rarely transitive should induce greater comprehension difficulty than verbs that are frequently transitive. As argued in Menn (2000), the basic assumptions underlying the definition of canonical form have not been seriously tested. Furthermore, m ...
Automatic Distillation of Musical Structures: Learning the Grammar of Music
... some notes in common. For example, A-Minor and F-Major, which have two notes in common. The melody note attached to both chords is A, which appears in both. It is expected to find such structures in a musical piece. Two chords, that are almost identical, can usually be replaced with little change to ...
... some notes in common. For example, A-Minor and F-Major, which have two notes in common. The melody note attached to both chords is A, which appears in both. It is expected to find such structures in a musical piece. Two chords, that are almost identical, can usually be replaced with little change to ...
Interplay between Syntax and Semantics during Sentence
... Some of the discrepancies between the different views on this topic are due to the fact that no clear distinction is made between cases where the syntactic constraints are, at least temporarily, indeterminate with respect to the structural assignment (syntactic ambiguity), and cases where these con ...
... Some of the discrepancies between the different views on this topic are due to the fact that no clear distinction is made between cases where the syntactic constraints are, at least temporarily, indeterminate with respect to the structural assignment (syntactic ambiguity), and cases where these con ...
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... This then allows us to discern which categories are such that their sentential units are symmetric in their substitution instances. Fodor and Lepore reject this. After stating that the linguist needs to first have a grasp of the notion of a syntactic category to then define the grammaticality of a s ...
... This then allows us to discern which categories are such that their sentential units are symmetric in their substitution instances. Fodor and Lepore reject this. After stating that the linguist needs to first have a grasp of the notion of a syntactic category to then define the grammaticality of a s ...
Finite Presentations of Infinite Structures: Automata and
... Effective semantics. For the relevant logics to be considered (e.g. first-order logic), the model checking problem on D should be decidable. That is, given a sentence ψ ∈ L and a representation of a structure A ∈ D, it should be decidable whether A |= ψ. These are just minimal requirements, that may ...
... Effective semantics. For the relevant logics to be considered (e.g. first-order logic), the model checking problem on D should be decidable. That is, given a sentence ψ ∈ L and a representation of a structure A ∈ D, it should be decidable whether A |= ψ. These are just minimal requirements, that may ...
Finite Presentations of Infinite Structures: Automata and
... Effective semantics. For the relevant logics to be considered (e.g. first-order logic), the model checking problem on D should be decidable. That is, given a sentence ψ ∈ L and a representation of a structure A ∈ D, it should be decidable whether A |= ψ. These are just minimal requirements, that may ...
... Effective semantics. For the relevant logics to be considered (e.g. first-order logic), the model checking problem on D should be decidable. That is, given a sentence ψ ∈ L and a representation of a structure A ∈ D, it should be decidable whether A |= ψ. These are just minimal requirements, that may ...
Scrambling and Processing: Dependencies
... grammar. What distinguishes one syntactic theory from another is which the linguistic grounds it uses to argue for a particular structural representation. Often, theories compete with each other over long periods of time because linguistic methods do not strongly favor one theory over the other. One ...
... grammar. What distinguishes one syntactic theory from another is which the linguistic grounds it uses to argue for a particular structural representation. Often, theories compete with each other over long periods of time because linguistic methods do not strongly favor one theory over the other. One ...
INDEX SETS FOR n-DECIDABLE STRUCTURES CATEGORICAL
... This means that for every Π11 set S there is a uniformly computable sequence of structures {Ai }i∈ω such that i ∈ S ⇐⇒ Ai is computably categorical. Marker in [25] defined ∀- and ∃-extensions, A∀ and A∃ , respectively, of an arbitrary structure A. The main property is that the domain and the basic r ...
... This means that for every Π11 set S there is a uniformly computable sequence of structures {Ai }i∈ω such that i ∈ S ⇐⇒ Ai is computably categorical. Marker in [25] defined ∀- and ∃-extensions, A∀ and A∃ , respectively, of an arbitrary structure A. The main property is that the domain and the basic r ...
Intuitions and Competence in Formal Semantics
... a flourishing field, but not longer the dominant paradigm, being in the company of corpus-based investigations, including typological and historical databases, work that extensively uses computational modelling, and so on. With this diversity in theories and approaches comes one in methodologies. An ...
... a flourishing field, but not longer the dominant paradigm, being in the company of corpus-based investigations, including typological and historical databases, work that extensively uses computational modelling, and so on. With this diversity in theories and approaches comes one in methodologies. An ...
Lecture notes for Chapter 1
... We need mathematical reasoning to • determine whether a mathematical argument is correct or incorrect and • construct mathematical arguments. Mathematical reasoning is not only important for conducting proofs and program verification, but also for artificial intelligence systems (drawing logical inf ...
... We need mathematical reasoning to • determine whether a mathematical argument is correct or incorrect and • construct mathematical arguments. Mathematical reasoning is not only important for conducting proofs and program verification, but also for artificial intelligence systems (drawing logical inf ...
