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Emergent Action Language on Real Robots

open access: yes, 2012
Almost all languages in the world have a way to formulate commands. Commands specify actions that the body should undertake (such as “stand up”), possibly involving other objects in the scene (such as “pick up the red block”). Action language involves various competences, in particular (i) the ability to perform an action and recognize which action has
Steels, Luc   +4 more
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Mind: meet network. Emergence of features in conceptual metaphor. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
As a human product, language reflects the psychological experience of man (Radden and Dirven, 2007). One model of language and human cognition in general is connectionism, by many linguists is regarded as mathematical and, therefore, too reductive.
Jaworska, Dorota, Jelec, Anna
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Early Modern Science in Translation: Texts in Transit Between Italy and England [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper aims to take a fresh look at the emergence of a new linguistic culture at the end of the seventeenth century in England, when the Restoration, the birth of the Royal Society and the spread of the experimental scientific method posed the ...
Plescia, Iolanda
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The co-evolution of number concepts and counting words [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Humans possess a number concept that differs from its predecessors in animal cognition in two crucial respects: (1) it is based on a numerical sequence whose elements are not confined to quantitative contexts, but can indicate cardinal/quantitative as ...
Wiese, Heike
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(Un)markedness of trills : the case of Slavic r-palatalisation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper evaluates trills [r] and their palatalized counterparts [rj] from the point of view of markedness. It is argued that [r]s are unmarked sounds in comparison to [rj]s which follows from the examination of the following parameters: (a) frequency ...
Zygis, Marzena
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Language Barriers in the Emergency Room

open access: yesAMA Journal of Ethics, 2012
When treating foreign patients, whose anxiety is compounded by being ill far from home among people who do not speak their language, physicians must be wary of false assumptions and work to communicate accurately and sensitively with patients, while making sure their immediate medical needs are met.
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Collective predictive coding hypothesis: symbol emergence as decentralized Bayesian inference

open access: yesFrontiers in Robotics and AI
Understanding the emergence of symbol systems, especially language, requires the construction of a computational model that reproduces both the developmental learning process in everyday life and the evolutionary dynamics of symbol emergence throughout ...
Tadahiro Taniguchi, Tadahiro Taniguchi
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Techniques and Applications of Natural Language Processing

open access: yesApplied Sciences
Natural language processing (NLP) has undergone rapid and transformative progress in recent years, driven largely by advances in deep learning and the emergence of large language models (LLMs) [...]
Rajvardhan Patil, Venkat Gudivada
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The Emerging Field of Language Dynamics

open access: yesLanguage and Linguistics Compass, 2008
Abstract Large linguistic databases, especially databases having a global coverage, such as the World Atlas of Language Structures, the Automated Similarity Judgment Program, and Ethnologue, are making it possible to systematically investigate many aspects of how languages change and compete for viability.
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