| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 337 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The framework -- Formalization of the models and Inference -- The english past tense: abstraction and Competition -- The english past tense: simulations -- English derivational morphology: Productivity, Processing, and Ordering -- English derivational morphology: Simulations -- Conclusion -- Past-tense inflectional classes -- Derivational suffixes |
| Summary |
"Language allows us to express and comprehend an unbounded number of thoughts. This fundamental and much-celebrated property is made possible by a division of labor between a large inventory of stored items (e.g., affixes, words, idioms) and a computational system that productively combines these stored units on the fly to create a potentially unlimited array of new expressions. A language learner must discover a language's productive, reusable units and determine which computational processes can give rise to new expressions. But how does the learner differentiate between the reusable, generalizable units (for example, the affix -ness, as in coolness, orderliness, cheapness) and apparent units that do not actually generalize in practice (for example, -th, as in warmth but not coolth)? In this book, Timothy O'Donnell proposes a formal computational model, Fragment Grammars, to answer these questions. This model treats productivity and reuse as the target of inference in a probabilistic framework, asking how an optimal agent can make use of the distribution of forms in the linguistic input to learn the distribution of productive word-formation processes and reusable units in a given language"--MIT CogNet |
| Analysis |
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General |
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LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General |
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COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-331) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Psycholinguistics -- Mathematical models
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Memory.
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Language and languages.
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Cognitive grammar.
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Cognition.
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Psycholinguistics.
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Language acquisition.
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cognition.
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psycholinguistics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
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SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
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Cognition
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Cognitive grammar
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Language acquisition
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Language and languages
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Memory
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Psycholinguistics
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Psycholinguistics -- Mathematical models
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780262326803 |
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0262326809 |
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0262028840 |
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9780262028844 |
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