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Book Synopsis Linguistic Attractors by : David L. Cooper
Download or read book Linguistic Attractors written by David L. Cooper and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interdisciplinary linguistic attractor model portrays language processing as linked sequences of fractal sets, and examines the changing dynamics of such sets for individuals as well as the speech community they comprise. Its motivation stems from human anatomic constraints and several artificial neural network approaches. It uses general computation theory to: (1) demonstrate the capacity of Cantor-like fractal sets to perform as Turing Machines; (2) better distinguish between models that simply match outputs ("emulation") and models that match both outputs and internal dynamics ("simulation"); and (3) relate language processing to essential computation steps executed in parallel. Measure and information theory highlight the key variables driving linguistic dynamics, while catastrophe and game theory help predict the possible topologies of language change.It introduces techniques to isolate and measure attractors, and to interpret their stability and relative content within a system. Important results include the capability to distinguish the sequence of related sound changes, and to make point-to-point comparisons of different texts using common metrics. Other techniques allow quantifiable ambiguity landscapes illustrating the forces that propel different languages in different directions.
Book Synopsis The Adaptive Value of Languages: Non-Linguistic Causes of Language Diversity by : Antonio Benítez-Burraco
Download or read book The Adaptive Value of Languages: Non-Linguistic Causes of Language Diversity written by Antonio Benítez-Burraco and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this eBook is to shed light on the non-linguistic causes of language diversity, and in particular, to explore the possibility that some aspects of the structure of languages may result from an adaptation to the natural and/or human-made environment. Traditionally, language diversity has been claimed to result from random, internally-motivated changes in language structure. However, ongoing research suggests instead that different factors that are external to language can promote language change and ultimately account for aspects of language diversity, specifically features of the social and physical environments. The contributions in this eBook discuss whether some aspects of languages are an adaptation to ecological, social, or even technological niches.
Book Synopsis Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics by : Vladimir Polyakov
Download or read book Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics written by Vladimir Polyakov and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created as intercultural and interdisciplinary, conferences of the series “Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics” have been successfully held since 1998. Over the years, CML has visited a number of countries, attracting more and more scientists from all over the world and thus broadening the scope of its topics. The conference has worked out its scientific character and now it has a constant core of participants; and the term “cognitive modeling” has become a popular topic of high profile conferences in linguistics and artificial intelligence, which affirms the CML’s direction of movement. The present volume gathers the most outstanding and interesting articles from participants of the XIIIth International Conference “Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics”, whose studies will no doubt be of interest to both scientists who have tied their lives with linguistics, as well as to those people who treat it as a hobby. For information about CML conferences, please visit www.cml.msisa.ru
Book Synopsis Multilingualism and Electronic Language Management by : Walter Daelemans
Download or read book Multilingualism and Electronic Language Management written by Walter Daelemans and published by Van Schaik Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Language by : George Melville Bolling
Download or read book Language written by George Melville Bolling and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society in v. 1-11, 1925-34. After 1934 they appear in Its Bulletin.
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Book Synopsis Explanation in typology by : Karsten Schmidtke-Bode
Download or read book Explanation in typology written by Karsten Schmidtke-Bode and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an up-to-date discussion of a foundational issue that has recently taken centre stage in linguistic typology and which is relevant to the language sciences more generally: To what extent can cross-linguistic generalizations, i.e. statistical universals of linguistic structure, be explained by the diachronic sources of these structures? Everyone agrees that typological distributions are the result of complex histories, as “languages evolve into the variation states to which synchronic universals pertain” (Hawkins 1988). However, an increasingly popular line of argumentation holds that many, perhaps most, typological regularities are long-term reflections of their diachronic sources, rather than being ‘target-driven’ by overarching functional-adaptive motivations. On this view, recurrent pathways of reanalysis and grammaticalization can lead to uniform synchronic results, obviating the need to postulate global forces like ambiguity avoidance, processing efficiency or iconicity, especially if there is no evidence for such motivations in the genesis of the respective constructions. On the other hand, the recent typological literature is equally ripe with talk of "complex adaptive systems", "attractor states" and "cross-linguistic convergence". One may wonder, therefore, how much room is left for traditional functional-adaptive forces and how exactly they influence the diachronic trajectories that shape universal distributions. The papers in the present volume are intended to provide an accessible introduction to this debate. Covering theoretical, methodological and empirical facets of the issue at hand, they represent current ways of thinking about the role of diachronic sources in explaining grammatical universals, articulated by seasoned and budding linguists alike.
Download or read book Studies in Language written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Teaching Language by : Diane Larsen-Freeman
Download or read book Teaching Language written by Diane Larsen-Freeman and published by Teachersource. This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viewing grammar as something which is organic and evolving, this book provides an overview of grammar acquisition and language learning.
Book Synopsis A Connectionist Model of Instructed Learning by : David Charles Noelle
Download or read book A Connectionist Model of Instructed Learning written by David Charles Noelle and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Current Contents. Arts & Humanities by : Institute for Scientific Information
Download or read book Current Contents. Arts & Humanities written by Institute for Scientific Information and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Motivational Dynamics in Language Learning by : Zoltán Dörnyei
Download or read book Motivational Dynamics in Language Learning written by Zoltán Dörnyei and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark volume offers a collection of conceptual papers and data-based research studies that investigate the dynamics of language learning motivation from a complex dynamic systems perspective. The chapters seek to answer the question of how we can understand motivation if we perceive it as a continuously changing and evolving entity rather than a fixed learner trait.
Download or read book Glottometrika written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The British National Bibliography by : Arthur James Wells
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Self-organization and Categorical Behavior in Phonology by : Andrew Benjamin Wedel
Download or read book Self-organization and Categorical Behavior in Phonology written by Andrew Benjamin Wedel and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Relevance Theory Meets Markedness by : Peter Schuster
Download or read book Relevance Theory Meets Markedness written by Peter Schuster and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising influence of cognitive sciences on linguistics has been observed recently. This work aims at pointing out which role cognitive effort may play in natural language processing. From a pragmatic perspective various approaches to a plausible definition of cognitive effort are presented. Some introductory sections to pragmatics lead to a discussion on relevance theory. Also, a variety of markedness concepts are introduced. These are examined in regard to their utility for the description of context understood as a psychological construct. Finally, a natural language processing model is used to describe cognitive effort in the light of divers learning models.
Book Synopsis Speech Prosody and Timing by : Deborah Burleson
Download or read book Speech Prosody and Timing written by Deborah Burleson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
