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Compositionality in human and animal communication [PDF]
Animal CognitionHuman languages use complex, structured signals whose meanings are compositional. Recent empirical research has claimed to demonstrate compositionality in bird and primate communication (Berthet et al. 2025; Engesser et al.
Nathan Klinedinst
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Testing semantic compositionality in baboons (Papio papio) through relearning and generalization. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThis study investigates whether baboons are capable of semantic compositionality, specifically, whether they can apply compositional rules to new situations (generalization).
Anne Reboul +3 more
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Evidence for compositional abilities in one-year-old infants [PDF]
Communications PsychologyCompositionality is a means of constructing complex objects through the transformation and combination of simpler elements. While it is common to view compositionality as inherently complex, and thus to assume that compositionality is a byproduct of ...
Isabelle Dautriche, Emmanuel Chemla
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, 2009 AbstractThe question of whether natural languages have compositional semantics continues to attract considerable interest, as do questions about the reasons for wanting compositionality, the consequences of compositionality, and the very formulation of the principle of compositionality.
Sauerland, Uli
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Cars, compositionality, and consciousness [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2008 Learning to drive a car is a long and tedious process. For most of us, it takes many painful hours of training. At the beginning, the car is an external device, reacting in unpredictable ways. But progressively, we get used to some of the dynamics of the complex machine.
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Kalbotyra, 1998 Straipsnyje aptariamos naujausios Vakarų kalbotyrininkų frazeologizmą semantikos teorijos. Per pastaruosius dvidešimt metą atlikta nemažai psicholingvistinių eksperimentų, tyrinėjančią frazeologizmą supratimo būdus. Sukurta keletas frazeologizmų supratimo teorijų, teigiančių, kad frazeologizmų reikšmė yra sudėtinė, t. y.
Ragnė Racevičiūtė
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Sources of variability in the syntactic flexibility of idioms
Glossa, 2023 Idiomatic verb phrases (e.g., kick the bucket, fig. 'to die') vary in their syntactic flexibility: they can undergo operations like, e.g., passivization (“The bucket was kicked”) to varying degrees. We (re-)consider potential sources of this variability.
Gisbert Fanselow +2 more
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Coercion and Compositionality [PDF]
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2010 AbstractResearch in psycholinguistics and in the cognitive neuroscience of language has suggested that semantic and syntactic processing are associated with different neurophysiologic correlates, such as the N400 and the P600 in the ERPs. However, only a handful of studies have investigated the neural basis of the syntax–semantics interface, and even ...
Giosuè Baggio +3 more
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Fixed-point Characterization of Compositionality Properties of Probabilistic Processes Combinators [PDF]
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2014 Bisimulation metric is a robust behavioural semantics for probabilistic processes. Given any SOS specification of probabilistic processes, we provide a method to compute for each operator of the language its respective metric compositionality property ...
Daniel Gebler, Simone Tini
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Unsupervised Compositionality Prediction of Nominal Compounds [PDF]
Computational Linguistics, 2019 Nominal compounds such as red wine and nut case display a continuum of compositionality, with varying contributions from the components of the compound to its semantics.
Silvio Cordeiro +3 more
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