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Book Synopsis Weaving an Ambiguous Lexicon by : Isabelle Dautriche
Download or read book Weaving an Ambiguous Lexicon written by Isabelle Dautriche and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern cognitive science of language concerns itself with (at least) two fundamental questions: how do humans learn language? --the learning problem --and why do the world's languages exhibit some properties and not others? --the typology problem. In this dissertation, I attempt to link these two questions by looking at the lexicon, the set of word-forms and their associated meanings, and ask why do lexicons look the way they are? And can the properties exhibited by the lexicon be (in part) explained by the way children learn their language? One striking observation is that the set of words in a given language is highly ambiguous and confusable. Words may have multiple senses (e.g., homonymy, polysemy) and are represented by an arrangement of a finite set of sounds that potentially increase their confusability (e.g., minimal pairs). Lexicons bearing such properties present a problem for children learning their language who seem to have difficulty learning similar sounding words and resist learning words having multiple meanings. Using lexical models and experimental methods in toddlers and adults, I present quantitative evidence that lexicons are, indeed, more confusable than what would be expected by chance alone. I then present empirical evidence suggesting that toddlers have the tools to bypass these problems given that ambiguous or confusable words are constrained to appear in distinct context. Finally, I submit that the study of ambiguous words reveal factors that were currently missing from current accounts of word learning. Taken together this research suggests that ambiguous and confusable words, while present in the language, may be restricted in their distribution in the lexicon and that these restrictions reflect (in part) how children learn languages.
Book Synopsis Lexical Ambiguity in Poetry by : Soon Peng Su
Download or read book Lexical Ambiguity in Poetry written by Soon Peng Su and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1994 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broad ranging and authoritative, this series incorporates major new work in all areas of linguistics.
Book Synopsis Lexical Relations - Lexical Ambiguity by : Irina Giertz
Download or read book Lexical Relations - Lexical Ambiguity written by Irina Giertz and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Grammar, Style, Working Technique, grade: 1,1, University of Cologne (Institut für Englische Philologie), course: Semantics, language: English, abstract: Lexical ambiguity appears at the interface between form and meaning of lexical items. Ambiguity is triggered by the assumption that the similarity of form is also reflected in the similarity of meaning. Whereas ambiguities violate the maxim of manner in the co-operative principles postulated by Grice, they are highly acclaimed in poetic language where they originate not in lack of specification or the complexity of the discourse, but in the complexity of the reader’s presuppositions. In this sense, it depends on the reader’s expertise, reading experience and profundity in determining the number of noted ambiguities. Linguistic ambiguity is a rich source of various word plays mostly known as punning. It reveals and emphasises linguistic peculiarities like homonymy and polysemy in a self-referential play of language with itself in a kind of mirroring.
Book Synopsis Ambiguity in the Mind and the Lexicon by : Sean Trott
Download or read book Ambiguity in the Mind and the Lexicon written by Sean Trott and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words contain multitudes. This multiplicity of meanings raises two key questions, both of which this thesis attempts to address. First, are word meanings categorical or continuous? The results of Chapters 2-4 support a hybrid model, in which word meanings occupy a continuous state-space (Elman, 2009), which is further discretized along the boundaries of distinct senses. And second, does the amount and distribution of homophony in real lexica reflect a pressure to concentrate meanings in the most efficient, optimal wordforms? The results in Chapters 5-7 suggest that homophony can emerge without a direct pressure for efficiency--and further, that real lexica might select against homophones, particularly among the most frequent wordforms of a lexicon. This pressure could even explain other properties of human lexica, such as their large phonological neighborhoods.
Book Synopsis Lexical Ambiguity Resolution by : Geert Adriaens
Download or read book Lexical Ambiguity Resolution written by Geert Adriaens and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 1988 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most frequently used words in English are highly ambiguous; for example, Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary lists 94 meanings for the word "run" as a verb alone. Yet people rarely notice this ambiguity. Solving this puzzle has commanded the efforts of cognitive scientists for many years. The solution most often identified is "context": we use the context of utterance to determine the proper meanings of words and sentences. The problem then becomes specifying the nature of context and how it interacts with the rest of an understanding system. The difficulty becomes especially apparent in the attempt to write a computer program to understand natural language. Lexical ambiguity resolution (LAR), then, is one of the central problems in natural language and computational semantics research. A collection of the best research on LAR available, this volume offers eighteen original papers by leading scientists. Part I, Computer Models, describes nine attempts to discover the processes necessary for disambiguation by implementing programs to do the job. Part II, Empirical Studies, goes into the laboratory setting to examine the nature of the human disambiguation mechanism and the structure of ambiguity itself. A primary goal of this volume is to propose a cognitive science perspective arising out of the conjunction of work and approaches from neuropsychology, psycholinguistics, and artificial intelligence--thereby encouraging a closer cooperation and collaboration among these fields. Lexical Ambiguity Resolution is a valuable and accessible source book for students and cognitive scientists in AI, psycholinguistics, neuropsychology, or theoretical linguistics.
Book Synopsis The Processing of Lexical Ambiguity, an Alternative Interpretation by : Gregory Lee Dunlap
Download or read book The Processing of Lexical Ambiguity, an Alternative Interpretation written by Gregory Lee Dunlap and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Activation of Multiple Meanings in the Processing of Lexical Ambiguity by : Thomas H. Killion
Download or read book Activation of Multiple Meanings in the Processing of Lexical Ambiguity written by Thomas H. Killion and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Weaving a Lexicon by : D. Geoffrey Hall
Download or read book Weaving a Lexicon written by D. Geoffrey Hall and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume examine the multidimensional way in which infants and children acquire the lexicon of their native language.
Book Synopsis Meaning Dominance and Context in the Processing of Lexical Ambiguities by : Donald R. Maxwell
Download or read book Meaning Dominance and Context in the Processing of Lexical Ambiguities written by Donald R. Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Resolving Semantic Ambiguity by : David S. Gorfein
Download or read book Resolving Semantic Ambiguity written by David S. Gorfein and published by Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg Gmbh & Company Kg. This book was released on 1989 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Explain Me This by : Adele E. Goldberg
Download or read book Explain Me This written by Adele E. Goldberg and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained We use words and phrases creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language constructions in new ways. Yet native speakers also implicitly know when a creative and easily interpretable formulation—such as “Explain me this” or “She considered to go”—doesn’t sound quite right. In this incisive book, Adele Goldberg explores how these creative but constrained language skills emerge from a combination of general cognitive mechanisms and experience. Shedding critical light on an enduring linguistic paradox, Goldberg demonstrates how words and abstract constructions are generalized and constrained in the same ways. When learning language, we record partially abstracted tokens of language within the high-dimensional conceptual space that is used when we speak or listen. Our implicit knowledge of language includes dimensions related to form, function, and social context. At the same time, abstract memory traces of linguistic usage-events cluster together on a subset of dimensions, with overlapping aspects strengthened via repetition. In this way, dynamic categories that correspond to words and abstract constructions emerge from partially overlapping memory traces, and as a result, distinct words and constructions compete with one another each time we select them to express our intended messages. While much of the research on this puzzle has favored semantic or functional explanations over statistical ones, Goldberg’s approach stresses that both the functional and statistical aspects of constructions emerge from the same learning mechanisms.
Book Synopsis Lexical Ambiguity, Dictionaries and Corpora by : Pascual Cantos Gómez
Download or read book Lexical Ambiguity, Dictionaries and Corpora written by Pascual Cantos Gómez and published by EDITUM. This book was released on 1996 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Medieval Clothing and Textiles 17 by : Cordelia Warr
Download or read book Medieval Clothing and Textiles 17 written by Cordelia Warr and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays here take us from the twelfth century, with an exploration of an inventory of Mediterranean textiles from an Ifriqiyan Church, into an examination and reconstruction of an extant thirteenth-century sleeve in France which provides a rare and early example of medieval quilted armour, and finally on to late medieval Sweden and the reconstruction of gilt-leather intarsia coverlets. A study of construction techniques and the evolution of form of gable and French hoods in the late medieval and the early modern periods follows; and the volume alos includes a study of how underwear for depicted in Renaissance paintings and manuscript illuminations serves as a marker of class.
Book Synopsis Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD by : Salvatore Gaspa
Download or read book Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD written by Salvatore Gaspa and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume derive from the conference on textile terminology held in June 2014 at the University of Copenhagen. Around 50 experts from the fields of Ancient History, Indo-European Studies, Semitic Philology, Assyriology, Classical Archaeology, and Terminology from twelve different countries came together at the Centre for Textile Research, to discuss textile terminology, semantic fields of clothing and technology, loan words, and developments of textile terms in Antiquity. They exchanged ideas, research results, and presented various views and methods. This volume contains 35 chapters, divided into five sections: - Textile terminologies across the ancient Near East and the Southern Levant - Textile terminologies in Europe and Egypt - Textile terminologies in metaphorical language and poetry - Textile terminologies: examples from China and Japan - Technical terms of textiles and textile tools and methodologies of classifications
Book Synopsis Medieval Clothing and Textiles by : Robin Netherton
Download or read book Medieval Clothing and Textiles written by Robin Netherton and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses largely on the British Isles, with papers on dress terms in two major works of literature, the Welsh Mabinogion and the Middle English Pearl; a study of a 13th-century royal bride's trousseau.
Book Synopsis Lexical Structures by : Heinz J Giegerich
Download or read book Lexical Structures written by Heinz J Giegerich and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monograph about structural entities originating in the lexicon - that is, about word structure - as well as about the structural characteristics of the lexicon as a module of formal grammar.
Book Synopsis Medieval Clothing and Textiles 12 by : Robin Netherton
Download or read book Medieval Clothing and Textiles 12 written by Robin Netherton and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. The studies collected here range through art, artifacts, documentary text, and poetry, addressing both real and symbolic functions of dress and textiles. John Block Friedman breaks new ground with his article on clothing for pets and other animals, while Grzegorz Pac compares depictions of sacred and royal female dress and evaluates attempts to link them together. Jonathan C. Cooper describes the clothing of scholars in Scotland's three pre-Reformation universities and the effects of the Reformation upon it. Camilla Luise Dahl examines references to women's garments in probates and what they reveal about early modern fashions. Megan Cavell focuses on the treatment of textiles associated with the Holy of Holies in Old English biblical poetry. Frances Pritchard examines the iconography, heraldry, and inscriptions on a worn and repaired set of embroidered fifteenth-century orphreys to determine their origin.Finally, Thomas M. Izbicki summarizes evidence for the choice of white linen for the altar and the responsibilities of priests for keeping it clean and in good repair.
