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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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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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Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2017 This paper proposes a simple test for compositionality (i.e., literal usage) of a word or phrase in a context-specific way. The test is computationally simple, relying on no external resources and only uses a set of trained word vectors.
Hongyu Gong, Suma Bhat, Pramod Viswanath
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, 2011 This article is concerned with the principle of compositionality, i.e. the principle that the meaning of a complex expression is a function of the meanings of its parts and its mode of composition. After a brief historical background, a formal algebraic framework for syntax and semantics is presented.
Pagin, Peter, Westerståhl, Dag
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COMPOSITIONALITY, COMPUTABILITY, AND COMPLEXITY
The Review of Symbolic Logic, 2020 AbstractThis paper starts from the observation that the standard arguments for compositionality are really arguments for the computability of semantics. Since computability does not entail compositionality, the question of what justifies compositionality recurs. The paper then elaborates on the idea of recursive semantics as corresponding to computable
Pagin, Peter
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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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