Exploiting Deep Semantics and Compositionality of Natural Language for Human-Robot-Interaction
We develop a natural language interface for human robot interaction that implements reasoning about deep semantics in natural language. To realize the required deep analysis, we employ methods from cognitive linguistics, namely the modular and ...
Eppe, Manfred +2 more
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Explaining individual differences in linguistic proficiency [PDF]
Response to peer ...
Neville, Street
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Explaining pretrained language models' understanding of linguistic structures using construction grammar. [PDF]
Weissweiler L +3 more
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Deconstructing English Articles A Construction Grammar Approach To Teaching Articles In English
The semantics of the articles is crucial for their proper usage in L2 speakers. However, we believe that for their proper acquisition a pairing of concrete form and concrete meaning must take place.
Vujic Jelena
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On the Size Complexity of Non-Returning Context-Free PC Grammar Systems [PDF]
Improving the previously known best bound, we show that any recursively enumerable language can be generated with a non-returning parallel communicating (PC) grammar system having six context-free components.
Bianca Truthe +15 more
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A Digital Analysis of the “L”-Shaped Tujia Dwellings in Southeast Chongqing Based on Shape Grammar
The Tujia ethnic group is one of the major ethnic groups in China, with a long history and abundant cultural heritage. As a distinctive architectural style, Tujia dwellings have evolved over thousands of years, developing a wealth of construction ...
Quan Wen +3 more
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The oblique anticausative in Lithuanian
This article examines Lithuanian structures with accusative functioning as a subject. It pursues the idea that this accusative is of old origin. This hypothesis is based on a detailed comparison with Old Icelandic, revealing striking similarities within ...
Valgerður Bjarnadóttir
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Cognitive Contact Linguistics as an essential ingredient of diachronic construction grammar [PDF]
BACKGROUND: “Diachronic construction grammar” is a field of investigation that brings together two, still relatively young, research traditions, which one could characterize as historical construction grammar and constructionist grammaticalization theory
Noel, D
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Utterance Construction Grammar (UCxG) and the variable multimodality of constructions
Some proponents of the theory of Construction Grammar have been investigating how it might address the nature of spoken language usage as multimodal. Problems confronted in this endeavour include the variability with which gesture is used with speech in ...
A. Cienki
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Diachronic construction grammar: A state of the art [PDF]
This paper will offer a state-of-the-art survey of work in historical linguistics (mainly, but not exclusively, on English) that can be brought under the heading of “diachronic construction grammar”.
Noel, D
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