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Hsu, Anne S.; Chater, Nick; Vitanyi, Paul M. B. – Cognition, 2011
There is much debate over the degree to which language learning is governed by innate language-specific biases, or acquired through cognition-general principles. Here we examine the probabilistic language acquisition hypothesis on three levels: We outline a novel theoretical result showing that it is possible to learn the exact "generative model"…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Prediction, Natural Language Processing, Language Acquisition
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Hertwig, Ralph; Benz, Bjorn; Krauss, Stefan – Cognition, 2008
According to the conjunction rule, the probability of A "and" B cannot exceed the probability of either single event. This rule reads "and" in terms of the logical operator [inverted v], interpreting A and B as an intersection of two events. As linguists have long argued, in natural language "and" can convey a wide range of relationships between…
Descriptors: Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Probability, Inferences