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Sidestepping the Combinatorial Explosion: An Explanation of "n"-gram Frequency Effects Based on Naive Discriminative Learning
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Baayen, R. Harald; Hendrix, Peter; Ramscar, Michael – Language and Speech, 2013
Arnon and Snider ((2010). More than words: Frequency effects for multi-word phrases. "Journal of Memory and Language," 62, 67-82) documented frequency effects for compositional four-grams independently of the frequencies of lower-order "n"-grams. They argue that comprehenders apparently store frequency information about…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Computational Linguistics, Language Processing, Models
Three Design Principles of Language: The Search for Parsimony in Redundancy
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Beekhuizen, Barend; Bod, Rens; Zuidema, Willem – Language and Speech, 2013
In this paper we present three design principles of language--experience, heterogeneity and redundancy--and present recent developments in a family of models incorporating them, namely Data-Oriented Parsing/Unsupervised Data-Oriented Parsing. Although the idea of some form of redundant storage has become part and parcel of parsing technologies and…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Models, Bayesian Statistics, Computational Linguistics
Implicit Schemata and Categories in Memory-Based Language Processing
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van den Bosch, Antal; Daelemans, Walter – Language and Speech, 2013
Memory-based language processing (MBLP) is an approach to language processing based on exemplar storage during learning and analogical reasoning during processing. From a cognitive perspective, the approach is attractive as a model for human language processing because it does not make any assumptions about the way abstractions are shaped, nor any…
Descriptors: Memory, Schemata (Cognition), Language Processing, Thinking Skills
Processing Coordination Ambiguity
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Engelhardt, Paul E.; Ferreira, Fernanda – Language and Speech, 2010
We examined temporarily ambiguous coordination structures such as "put the butter in the bowl and the pan on the towel." Minimal Attachment predicts that the ambiguous noun phrase "the pan" will be interpreted as a noun-phrase coordination structure because it is syntactically simpler than clausal coordination. Constraint-based…
Descriptors: Nouns, Figurative Language, Language Processing, Theories
Bootstrapping Lexical and Syntactic Acquisition
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Christophe, Anne; Millotte, Severine; Bernal, Savita; Lidz, Jeffrey – Language and Speech, 2008
This paper focuses on how phrasal prosody and function words may interact during early language acquisition. Experimental results show that infants have access to intermediate prosodic phrases (phonological phrases) during the first year of life, and use these to constrain lexical segmentation. These same intermediate prosodic phrases are used by…
Descriptors: Nouns, Syntax, Infants, Language Processing
An Overview of Language.
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Cameron, M. H.; Saunders, Marie T. – Language and Speech, 1977
Argues that language is a global concept consisting of three interrelated aspects (functions, determinants, and components). Notes the significance of this model for first and second language learning and language deviation. Demonstrates the need for a multidisciplinary approach to language study. (RL)
Descriptors: Language, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Models
Auditory Processing of Speech.
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Chistovich, Ludmilla A. – Language and Speech, 1980
Outlines an approach for studying auditory levels in speech perception, focusing on the artificial speech understanding system that is most compatible with the experimental data obtained in speech perception research. (RL)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Adults, Artificial Speech, Auditory Perception
Semantic Aspects of Psycholinguistic Research in Simultaneous Interpretation.
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Chernov, Ghelly V. – Language and Speech, 1979
Suggests that cumulative dynamic analysis of the semantic structure of the incoming message is subconsciously performed by interpreters. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Research, Deep Structure, Interpreters