Productivity and reuse in language : a theory of linguistic computation and storage / / Timothy J. O'Donnell

• Autore: O'Donnell Timothy J. <1977->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (350 p.)
• Disciplina: 410.1/51
• Soggetto topico: Psycholinguistics - Mathematical models; Memory; Language and languages; Cognitive grammar; Recognition; Psycholinguistics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; I MODEL BACKGROUND AND DEVELOPMENT; 1 Introduction; 2 The Framework; 3 Formalization of the Models and Inference; II EMPIRICAL APPLICATIONS; 4 The English Past Tense: Abstraction and Competition; 5 The English Past Tense: Simulations; 6 English Derivational Morphology: Productivity, Processing, and Ordering; 7 English Derivational Morphology: Simulations; 8 Conclusion; A Past-Tense Inflectional Classes; B Derivational Suffixes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Productivity and reuse in language
• ISBN: 0-262-32681-7; 0-262-32680-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461722303321
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