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Analogical Modeling of Language

1. Structuralist Versus Analogical Descriptions ONE important purpose of this book is to compare two completely dif­ ferent approaches to describing language. The first of these approaches, commonly called stnlctllralist, is the traditional method for describing behavior. Its methods are found in ma...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Skousen, R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1989, 1989
Edition:1st ed. 1989
Subjects:
Computational Linguistics
Artificial Intelligence
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Structuralist Versus Analogical Descriptions
  • 2. An Overview of the Book
  • 1: Problems with Rule Descriptions of Language
  • 1. Three Basic Types of Language Behavior
  • 2. Empirical Problems
  • 3. Conceptual Problems
  • 2: An Analogical Approach
  • 1. An Overview of the Analogical Model
  • 2. Constructing the Analogical Set for a Given Context
  • 3. The Exponential Effect in a Saturated Deterministic Field
  • 4. Predicting the Three Basic Behaviors Analogically
  • 3: Three Examples from English
  • 1. Specifying the Data Set
  • 2. Categorical Behavior: The Indefinite Article
  • 3. Exceptional/Regular Behavior: Spelling Initial /h/
  • 4. Idiosyncratic Behavior: Voicing Onset Time
  • 4: Predicting Non-Deterministic Language Variation
  • 1. Learning Probabilities
  • 2. McClelland and Rumelhart’s Connectionist Approach
  • 3. Imperfect Memory and Multivariate Predictions
  • 4. Rule Approaches to Language Variation
  • 5. Sociolinguistic Variation in Arabic
  • 5: Analogical Predictions of the Past Tense in Finnish
  • 1. An Overview of the Verb Types
  • 2. The Past Tense in Standard Finnish
  • 3. Variation in the Past Tense
  • 4. Properties of an Analogically Predicted Past Tense Form
  • 5. Predicting the Past Tense for Infrequent Verbs
  • 6. Predicting the Past Tense for Verbs in the Data Set
  • 7. Historical Drift of the Past Tense
  • 8. A Note on the Historical Development
  • 6: Conclusion
  • 1. Massively Parallel Processing of Analogical Sets
  • 2. A Final Analogy
  • References
  • Appendix 1: Symbols for the Phonemes of English
  • Appendix 2: Data Sets
  • 1. The Indefinite Article in English
  • 2. Spelling of Initial /h/ in English
  • 3. Categorical Determination of /b,p/ in English
  • 4. Terms of Address in Colloquial Egyptian Arabic
  • 5. Past Tense in Finnish
  • Appendix 3: Pascal Program

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