Productivity and Reuse in Language : A Theory of Linguistic Computation and Storage
Timothy J. O'Donnell
Bok Engelsk 2015 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT , cop. 2015
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (350 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; I MODEL BACKGROUND AND DEVELOPMENT; 1 Introduction; 2 The Framework; 3 Formalization of the Models and Inference; II EMPIRICAL APPLICATIONS; 4 The English Past Tense: Abstraction and Competition; 5 The English Past Tense: Simulations; 6 English Derivational Morphology: Productivity, Processing, and Ordering; 7 English Derivational Morphology: Simulations; 8 Conclusion; A Past-Tense Inflectional Classes; B Derivational Suffixes; Bibliography; Index. - Language allows us to express and comprehend an unbounded number of thoughts. This fundamental and much-celebrated property is made possible by a division of labour between a large inventory of stored items (e.g. affixes, words, idioms) and a computational system that productively combines these stored units on the fly to create a potentially unlimited array of new expressions. A language learner must discover a language's productive, reusable units and determine which computational processes can give rise to new expressions. But how does the learner differentiate between the reusable, generalizable units and apparent units that do not actually generalize in practice? In this book, Timothy O'Donnell proposes a formal computational model, 'Fragment Grammars', to answer these questions.
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| ISBN | 9780262028844
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