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Formation of English Phraseological Units with Names of Professions
Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Seriâ 2. Âzykoznanie, 2022 The paper considers cognitive aspects of phraseological meaning formation. The research aims at identifying the role of metaphorical and metonymic transference in the process of phraseologization.
Anzhela Tuarmenskaya +1 more
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Compositionality in a Parallel Architecture for Language Processing
Cognitive Sciences, 2021 Compositionality has been a central concept in linguistics and philosophy for decades, and it is increasingly prominent in many other areas of cognitive science. Its status, however, remains contentious.
Giosuè Baggio
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Call combinations in birds and the evolution of compositional syntax. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2018 Syntax is the set of rules for combining words into phrases, providing the basis for the generative power of linguistic expressions. In human language, the principle of compositionality governs how words are combined into a larger unit, the meaning of ...
Toshitaka N Suzuki +2 more
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The myth of occurrence-based semantics [PDF]
, 2020 The principle of compositionality requires that the meaning of a complex expression remains the same after substitution of synonymous expressions. Alleged counterexamples to compositionality seem to force a theoretical choice: either apparent synonyms ...
Pickel, Bryan, Rabern, Brian
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Compositional Temporal Grounding with Structured Variational Cross-Graph Correspondence Learning [PDF]
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2022 Temporal grounding in videos aims to localize one target video segment that semantically corresponds to a given query sentence. Thanks to the semantic diversity of natural language descriptions, temporal grounding allows activity grounding beyond pre ...
Juncheng Li +8 more
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Information Theory–based Compositional Distributional Semantics
Computational Linguistics, 2022 In the context of text representation, Compositional Distributional Semantics models aim to fuse the Distributional Hypothesis and the Principle of Compositionality.
Enrique Amigo +3 more
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Coping with informational atomism - one of Jerry Fodor's legacy
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2020 Fodor was passionately unwilling to compromise. Of his several commitments, I focus here on informational atomism. Fodor staunchly rejected semantic holism for two conspiring reasons.
Pierre Jacob
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Quantum Uncertainties and Holism Seem to Render Irrelevant Qudit-Semantics
Entropy, 2021 We consider a semantics based on the peculiar holistic features of the quantum formalism. Any formula of the language gives rise to a quantum circuit that transforms the density operator associated to the formula into the density operator associated to ...
Roberto Leporini
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Movement timing and invariance arise from several geometries. [PDF]
PLoS Computational Biology, 2009 Human movements show several prominent features; movement duration is nearly independent of movement size (the isochrony principle), instantaneous speed depends on movement curvature (captured by the 2/3 power law), and complex movements are composed of ...
Daniel Bennequin +3 more
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Meaningful syntactic structure in songbird vocalizations? [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2018 The faculty of language is thought to be uniquely human. Recently, it has been claimed that songbirds are able to associate meaning with sound, comparable to the way that humans do.
Johan J Bolhuis +4 more
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