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An Introduction to Game Theory for Linguists
2006In a very general sense we can say that we play a game together with other people whenever we have to decide between several actions such that the decision depends on the choice of actions by others and on our preferences over the ultimate results. Obvious examples are card games, chess, or soccer.
Benz, A., Jäger, G., van Rooij, R.
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Connectionism in Linguistic Theory
2017Connectionism is an important theoretical framework for the study of human cognition and behavior. Also known as Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) or Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), connectionism advocates that learning, representation, and processing of information in mind are parallel, distributed, and interactive in nature.
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Linguistic Theory, Explanation and Linguistic Competence
2014This chapter will aim at underlining the ramifications of the new view of the relationship between grammar, mind and computation. In this connection issues of explanation in linguistic theory in association with the notion of linguistic competence will be touched upon, since the challenge of describing linguistic competence per se in a manner that ...
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Learnability and Linguistic Theory
1989Introduction: Learnability and Linguistic Theory.- Learning Theory and Natural Language.- The Plausibility of Rationalism.- On Applying Learnability Theory to the Rationalism-Empiricism Controversy.- On Certain Substitutes for Negative Data.- Markedness and Language Development.- Learning the Periphery.- Some Problems in the Parametric Analysis of ...
Robert J. Matthews, William Demopoulos
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2017
This chapter aims to locate the linguistic theories within the space of humor theory at large. It required a major development of the humor theory to expand the purview to larger texts over the next two decades. Humor theory is set up on the strictly Popperian view that every hypothesis must set up a reliable way to be falsified, in principle-otherwise,
Salvatore Attardo, Victor Raskin
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This chapter aims to locate the linguistic theories within the space of humor theory at large. It required a major development of the humor theory to expand the purview to larger texts over the next two decades. Humor theory is set up on the strictly Popperian view that every hypothesis must set up a reliable way to be falsified, in principle-otherwise,
Salvatore Attardo, Victor Raskin
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The “Linguistic” Theory of Usage
Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique, 1961The battle between the new grammarians or linguists and the school grammarians has been won decisively by the linguists. In academic journals defenses of notional grammar are rare and new work based on notional categories almost non-existent. The struggles continues in pedagogical journal and in the schools, but there are signs that the new grammar is ...
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Triggers-Receptors Linguistics Theory
"triggers and receptors Linguistics Theory" is a groundbreaking exploration of linguistic theory, aiming to understand human language from the perspectives of triggers and receptors. The concept originates from the natural phenomena where animal behavioral responses are triggered, leading to the deduction that the essence of language itself is a ...openaire +1 more source
Latin Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
Language, 1984Margaret E. Winters, Harm Pinkster
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1972
When we, consciously or unconsciously, apply a law of logic, this is simply a kind of activity. But if we wish to formulate or to prove a law of logic, then we cannot avoid talking about language, for the forms of propositions are vitally important for the formulation of logical laws. Even if we are primarily concerned with the formal properties of the
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When we, consciously or unconsciously, apply a law of logic, this is simply a kind of activity. But if we wish to formulate or to prove a law of logic, then we cannot avoid talking about language, for the forms of propositions are vitally important for the formulation of logical laws. Even if we are primarily concerned with the formal properties of the
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Linguistic theory and theoretical linguistics
1991One of my aims in this chapter, which complements the preceding one, is to motivate a distinction between two terms that are currently employed by most linguists as synonyms and to use this terminological distinction as a peg upon which to hang some comments about the present state of linguistics.
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