Causal Reasoning and Event Cognition as Evolutionary Determinants of Language Structure
Entropy, 2021 The aim of this article is to provide an evolutionarily grounded explanation of central aspects of the structure of language. It begins with an account of the evolution of human causal reasoning.
Peter Gärdenfors
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Sõnaliik leksikograafi töölaual: sõnaliikide roll tänapäeva leksikograafias
Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat, 2020 Sõnaliik on traditsiooniliselt keele kirjelduse osa, mis hõlmab sõna morfoloogilist ja süntaktilist käitumist, aga ka tähendust ning pragmaatilist funktsiooni.
Geda Paulsen, Ene Vainik, Maria Tuulik
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Continuity of Functional Transducers: A Profinite Study of Rational Functions [PDF]
, 2020 A word-to-word function is continuous for a class of languages~$\mathcal{V}$ if its inverse maps $\mathcal{V}$_languages to~$\mathcal{V}$. This notion provides a basis for an algebraic study of transducers, and was integral to the characterization of the
Cadilhac, Michaël +2 more
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Manner and adverb: Fuzzy categorial boundaries in collocations
Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat, 2018 It is a well-known fact that natural languages do not correspond to the linguistic categories without trouble. Regarding the category of word classes, one of the most challenging groups in Estonian is the adverb, characterized by continuing ...
Geda Paulsen
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The company that words keep: comparing the statistical structure of child- versus adult-directed language [PDF]
, 2013 Does child-directed language differ from adult-directed language in ways that might facilitate word learning? Associative structure (the probability that a word appears with its free associates), contextual diversity, word repetitions and frequency were ...
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Non-verbal Enrichment in Vocabulary Learning With a Virtual Pedagogical Agent
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Non-verbal enrichment in the form of pictures or gesture can support word learning in first and foreign languages. The present study seeks to compare the effects of viewing pictures vs.
Astrid M. Rosenthal-von der Pütten +1 more
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Cross-linguistic activation in bilingual sentence processing: the role of word class meaning [PDF]
, 2010 This study investigates how categorial (word class) semantics influences cross-linguistic interactions when reading in L2. Previous homograph studies paid little attention to the possible influence of different word classes in the stimulus material on ...
Baten, Kristof +2 more
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CORRELATION OF MORPHEMIC AND SYLLABIC DIVISION IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2018 The statement about unity and entirety of language system, interdependency and interaction of different level language elements belongs to the circle of fundamental problems in language theory. There is a specific correlation between sounding and meaning.
Elena N Popova, Stella B Tomashevich
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The Complexity of Finding Reset Words in Finite Automata [PDF]
, 2010 We study several problems related to finding reset words in deterministic finite automata. In particular, we establish that the problem of deciding whether a shortest reset word has length k is complete for the complexity class DP.
A.L. Selman +9 more
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Transductive Multi-label Zero-shot Learning [PDF]
, 2014 Zero-shot learning has received increasing interest as a means to alleviate the often prohibitive expense of annotating training data for large scale recognition problems.
Fu, Yanwei +4 more
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