Updating Empiricist Mentalist Semantics
... put forward by René Descartes, John Locke, George Berkeley, and John Stuart Mill. Traditionally the domain of mentalist semantic theories is partitioned into a rationalist and an empiricist sub-domain. Rationalists such as Descartes believe that the mental is furnished with innate ideas, so that sub ...
... put forward by René Descartes, John Locke, George Berkeley, and John Stuart Mill. Traditionally the domain of mentalist semantic theories is partitioned into a rationalist and an empiricist sub-domain. Rationalists such as Descartes believe that the mental is furnished with innate ideas, so that sub ...
METAPHORS IN LEIBNIZ`S PHILOSOPHY
... multiplicity, identity vs. difference, theory vs. practice, etc. Focusing on Leibniz’s basic metaphors thus yields a grid for reading Leibniz where his different concerns, in different fields of knowledge, converge without subordinating each other in a strictly hierarchical systematic structure. The ...
... multiplicity, identity vs. difference, theory vs. practice, etc. Focusing on Leibniz’s basic metaphors thus yields a grid for reading Leibniz where his different concerns, in different fields of knowledge, converge without subordinating each other in a strictly hierarchical systematic structure. The ...
Radical Enactivism, Wittgenstein and the cognitive gap
... Roberts (2013) objects that the REC claim entails that, “the distinction between veridical and illusory experience is hard for the radical enactivist to draw…[On the REC proposal, not] only are creatures with basic minds, who are without fully-formed conceptual abilities, thus unable to undergo perc ...
... Roberts (2013) objects that the REC claim entails that, “the distinction between veridical and illusory experience is hard for the radical enactivist to draw…[On the REC proposal, not] only are creatures with basic minds, who are without fully-formed conceptual abilities, thus unable to undergo perc ...
Optimality in Sentence Processing
... We assume furthermore that each candidate tree provided by Int satisfies X’ theory (Box 12:1) and thus each candidate structure is a fully connected tree with a single root node, like all trees. However, we do not assume that the trees Int produces are all rooted in S (i.e., a sentence node; also la ...
... We assume furthermore that each candidate tree provided by Int satisfies X’ theory (Box 12:1) and thus each candidate structure is a fully connected tree with a single root node, like all trees. However, we do not assume that the trees Int produces are all rooted in S (i.e., a sentence node; also la ...
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 ...
Automatic Distillation of Musical Structures: Learning the Grammar of Music
... 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 the music. However, ADIOS also tends to find some disharmonic equivalence classes, which is not common in standa ...
... 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 the music. However, ADIOS also tends to find some disharmonic equivalence classes, which is not common in standa ...
Lecture 9: Figurative Language Reading Types of Figurative
... fall like a house of cards... Checkmate. Zapp Brannigan (Futurama) ...
... fall like a house of cards... Checkmate. Zapp Brannigan (Futurama) ...
Starting with complex primitives pays off: complicate locally, simplify
... languages of G and G be the same (i.e., they are weakly equivalent) then any CFG can be lexicalized. This follows from the fact that any CFG can be put in the Greibach normal form (see Linz, 2001) where each rule is of the form A → w B1 B2 . . . Bn where w is a lexical item and the B s are non-ter ...
... languages of G and G be the same (i.e., they are weakly equivalent) then any CFG can be lexicalized. This follows from the fact that any CFG can be put in the Greibach normal form (see Linz, 2001) where each rule is of the form A → w B1 B2 . . . Bn where w is a lexical item and the B s are non-ter ...
The impact of iconic gestures on foreign language word learning
... 1995, 2000] and, thus, to cause better integration of relational information at the word, phrase, and sentence level [Helstrup, 1993; Knopf et al., 2005]. Thus, these three approaches differ with respect to whether the enhancing effect on verbal memory when performing a speech gesture during word le ...
... 1995, 2000] and, thus, to cause better integration of relational information at the word, phrase, and sentence level [Helstrup, 1993; Knopf et al., 2005]. Thus, these three approaches differ with respect to whether the enhancing effect on verbal memory when performing a speech gesture during word le ...
Interplay between Syntax and Semantics during Sentence
... of words (see Vosse & Kempen, 2000 for a computational model). The approach taken here was to exploit the fact that different types of electrophysiological brain activity (i.e., event-related brain potentials [ERPs]) have been shown to honor the distinction between the processing of syntactic and se ...
... of words (see Vosse & Kempen, 2000 for a computational model). The approach taken here was to exploit the fact that different types of electrophysiological brain activity (i.e., event-related brain potentials [ERPs]) have been shown to honor the distinction between the processing of syntactic and se ...
On the Distinctions between Semantics and Pragmatics
... In the trichotomy proposed by Morris, syntax, semantics and pragmatics are seen as successively more abstract levels of enquiry. We can now ask what the abstraction is based on. As far as the distinction between syntax and semantics goes the prevailing view is that syntax disregards meaning in favor ...
... In the trichotomy proposed by Morris, syntax, semantics and pragmatics are seen as successively more abstract levels of enquiry. We can now ask what the abstraction is based on. As far as the distinction between syntax and semantics goes the prevailing view is that syntax disregards meaning in favor ...
Scrambling and Processing: Dependencies
... hypothesis that a psycholinguistic investigation of a phenomenon can shed the light on some unresolved linguistic problem. The second approach advocated by cognitive science suggests that ideally we would study every construction in a language from both linguistic and psycholinguistic points of view ...
... hypothesis that a psycholinguistic investigation of a phenomenon can shed the light on some unresolved linguistic problem. The second approach advocated by cognitive science suggests that ideally we would study every construction in a language from both linguistic and psycholinguistic points of view ...
Combinatorial structures and processing in Neural Blackboard
... arbitrary binding of words in (potentially novel) sentence structures or even new words in sentence structures, as in Figure 2. In each of these cases, the behavior of answering a question (probing for relation information or binding) depends on connecting sensory information to motor activation, in ...
... arbitrary binding of words in (potentially novel) sentence structures or even new words in sentence structures, as in Figure 2. In each of these cases, the behavior of answering a question (probing for relation information or binding) depends on connecting sensory information to motor activation, in ...
melanesian pidgin and second language acquisition
... grown up as childhood speakers of the developing pidgin. It is these fluent speakers who served as linguistic brokers, communicating with fellow Islanders and with Europeans, and mediating interlingual encounters. When the Labor Trade began, they played an expanding role in recruiting Islanders from ...
... grown up as childhood speakers of the developing pidgin. It is these fluent speakers who served as linguistic brokers, communicating with fellow Islanders and with Europeans, and mediating interlingual encounters. When the Labor Trade began, they played an expanding role in recruiting Islanders from ...
General Pedagogical Guide - Ministère de l`Éducation et de l
... processes. 11. Learners should come to value the ability both to participate effectively in the communication process and to use language effectively in the formulation of thought. 12. The role of the teacher is to facilitate learning and not simply to dispense information. ...
... processes. 11. Learners should come to value the ability both to participate effectively in the communication process and to use language effectively in the formulation of thought. 12. The role of the teacher is to facilitate learning and not simply to dispense information. ...
III *** A unique evolutionary trajectory 1\\
... In part II I have shown that the traditional disjunction between `nature' and `culture' is too simplistic. Human culture does not transcend the `struggle for life', it is simply another way in which this struggle is fought. Different cultural expressions can be ways in which individuals demonstrate ...
... In part II I have shown that the traditional disjunction between `nature' and `culture' is too simplistic. Human culture does not transcend the `struggle for life', it is simply another way in which this struggle is fought. Different cultural expressions can be ways in which individuals demonstrate ...
Phraseology and linguistic theory
... As to the third criterion, it is probably fair to say that there is little work which has defined phraseologisms solely on the basis of some quantitative criterion based on their frequency of occurrence (and/or additional frequency information). True, some scholars have used a threshold of absolute ...
... As to the third criterion, it is probably fair to say that there is little work which has defined phraseologisms solely on the basis of some quantitative criterion based on their frequency of occurrence (and/or additional frequency information). True, some scholars have used a threshold of absolute ...
1 Throwing out the Tacit Rule Book: Learning and Practices Stephen
... speak, the training history. Like paths from one point in space to another, the connections in a net that produce the “same” competency may be different in structure. The implication of this that bears on the theory of social practices or the idea of shared practices is that two individuals with an ...
... speak, the training history. Like paths from one point in space to another, the connections in a net that produce the “same” competency may be different in structure. The implication of this that bears on the theory of social practices or the idea of shared practices is that two individuals with an ...
Learning Morphology by Itself1 - Mediterranean Morphology Meetings
... knowledge (such as “morphologically complex words can be segmented exhaustively into non-overlapping constituent morphemes”, “allomorphs tend to be arranged into a minimum number of disjunctive paradigm-based classes” etc.). This knowledge plays a fundamental role in ensuring convergence of Harrisia ...
... knowledge (such as “morphologically complex words can be segmented exhaustively into non-overlapping constituent morphemes”, “allomorphs tend to be arranged into a minimum number of disjunctive paradigm-based classes” etc.). This knowledge plays a fundamental role in ensuring convergence of Harrisia ...
Language
... Describe cognitive psychology and discuss the role of the computer in the development of the field. Explain the processes and human limitations in problem solving, reasoning, and decision making. Describe intelligence and its measurement. Discuss influences on intelligence and types of ...
... Describe cognitive psychology and discuss the role of the computer in the development of the field. Explain the processes and human limitations in problem solving, reasoning, and decision making. Describe intelligence and its measurement. Discuss influences on intelligence and types of ...
Introduction to frequency and the emergence of linguistic structure
... volume) terms the "slippage" between standard ideas about grammaticality and the facts presented by natural data. Poplack (this volume) finds that the grammar of the subjunctive and conditional in the spoken vernacular French of Canada is quite different from that of the norms dictated for Metropoli ...
... volume) terms the "slippage" between standard ideas about grammaticality and the facts presented by natural data. Poplack (this volume) finds that the grammar of the subjunctive and conditional in the spoken vernacular French of Canada is quite different from that of the norms dictated for Metropoli ...
A brief history of Stylistics
... complex history and variety of investigated issues of this study it is difficult to state precisely what stylistics is, and to mark clear boundaries between it and other branches of linguistics which deal with text analysis. What has been the primary interest of stylistics for years is the analysis ...
... complex history and variety of investigated issues of this study it is difficult to state precisely what stylistics is, and to mark clear boundaries between it and other branches of linguistics which deal with text analysis. What has been the primary interest of stylistics for years is the analysis ...
Fine Motor Skills - McGraw Hill Higher Education
... Using brain scanning techniques researchers found that the amount of brain material in some areas nearly doubles within a year’s time, and then there is drastic loss of tissue as the unneeded cells are purged. In early childhood, the most rapid growth occurs in the frontal lobes, which are impor ...
... Using brain scanning techniques researchers found that the amount of brain material in some areas nearly doubles within a year’s time, and then there is drastic loss of tissue as the unneeded cells are purged. In early childhood, the most rapid growth occurs in the frontal lobes, which are impor ...