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Lexical typology : a programmatic sketch
The present paper is an attempt to lay the foundation for Lexical Typology as a new kind of linguistic typology.1 The goal of Lexical Typology is to investigate crosslinguistically significant patterns of interaction between lexicon and grammar
Learning Language from a Large (Unannotated) Corpus
A novel approach to the fully automated, unsupervised extraction of
dependency grammars and associated syntax-to-semantic-relationship mappings
from large text corpora is described. The suggested approach builds on the
authors' prior work with the Link Grammar, RelEx and OpenCog systems, as well
as on a number of prior papers and approaches from the statistical language
learning literature. If successful, this approach would enable the mining of
all the information needed to power a natural language comprehension and
generation system, directly from a large, unannotated corpus.Comment: 29 pages, 5 figures, research proposa
Relevance and Conditionals: A Synopsis of Open Pragmatic and Semantic Issues
Recently several papers have reported relevance effects on the cognitive assessments of indicative conditionals, which pose an explanatory challenge to the Suppositional Theory of conditionals advanced by David Over, which is influential in the psychology of reasoning. Some of these results concern the “Equation” (P(if A, then C) = P(C|A)), others the de Finetti truth table, and yet others the uncertain and-to-inference task. The purpose of this chapter is to take a Birdseye view on the debate and investigate some of the open theoretical issues posed by the empirical results. Central among these is whether to count these effects as belonging to pragmatics or semantics
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Understanding analogical reasoning : viewpoints from psychology and related disciplines
Analogy and metaphor have a long history of study in linguistics, education, philosophy and psychology. Consensus over what analogy is or how analogy functions in language and thought, however, has been elusive. This paper, the first in a two part series, examines these various research traditions, attempting to bring out major lines of agreement over the role of analogy in individual human experience. As well as being a general literature review which may be helpful for newcomers to the study of analogy, this paper attempts to extract from these literatures existing theories, models and concepts which may be interesting or useful for computational studies of analogical reasoning
Poznawcze przesłanki semiozy zorientowanej na mit
This article addresses the cognitive premises of designation units denoting mythic concepts in
a variety of texts and discourses. The article focuses on myth-oriented semiosis as a cognitive
and cultural phenomenon reflected in the semantic transformations of lingual signs, resulting
in the development of noematic senses relevant to the states of affairs in diverse worldviews
or modelled alternative realities. This article provides an analysis of the basic cognitive models
and procedures responsible for irrational cognition. The reconstructed cognitive models are then
discussed in terms of their correspondence with the universal patterns of open system interaction
and information exchange.Ten artykuł dotyczy poznawczych przesłanek jednostek desygnacyjnych oznaczających mityczne pojęcia w różnych tekstach i dyskursach. Artykuł koncentruje się na semiozie zorientowanej na mit jako zjawisku poznawczym i kulturowym odzwierciedlonym w semantycznych przekształceniach znaków językowych, co skutkuje rozwojem noematycznych zmysłów związanych ze stanami rzeczy w różnych światopoglądach lub modelowanych alternatywnych rzeczywistościach. Ten artykuł zawiera analizę podstawowych modeli i procedur poznawczych odpowiedzialnych za irracjonalne poznanie. Zrekonstruowane modele poznawcze są następnie omawiane pod kątem ich zgodności z uniwersalnymi wzorcami interakcji otwartego systemu i wymiany informacji
Moral Structure Falls Out of General Event Structure
The notion of agency has been explored within research in moral psychology and, quite separately, within research in linguistics. Moral psychologists have suggested that agency attributions play a role in moral judgments, while linguists have argued that agency attributions play a role in syntactic intuitions.
To explore the connection between these two lines of research, we report the results of an experiment in which we manipulate syntactic cues for agency and show a corresponding impact on moral judgments. This result suggests that the two effects observed previously — in morality and in syntax — might each be a reflection of a more general capacity to understand event structure
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