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Probabilistic linguistics /
For the past forty years, linguistics has been dominated by the idea that language is categorical and linguistic competence discrete. It has become increasingly clear, however, that many levels of representation, from phonemes to sentence structure, show probabilistic properties, as does the languag...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
MIT Press,
©2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | For the past forty years, linguistics has been dominated by the idea that language is categorical and linguistic competence discrete. It has become increasingly clear, however, that many levels of representation, from phonemes to sentence structure, show probabilistic properties, as does the language faculty. Probabilistic linguistics conceptualizes categories as distributions and views knowledge of language not as a minimal set of categorical constraints but as a set of gradient rules that may be characterized by a statistical distribution. Whereas categorical approaches focus on the endpoints of distributions of linguistic phenomena, probabilistic approaches focus on the gradient middle ground. Probabilistic linguistics integrates all the progress made by linguistics thus far with a probabilistic perspective. This book presents a comprehensive introduction to probabilistic approaches to linguistic inquiry. It covers the application of probabilistic techniques to phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. It also includes a tutorial on elementary probability theory and probabilistic grammars. |
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| Notas: | " ... originated as a symposium on 'Probability theory in linguistics' held in Washington, D.C. as part of the Linguistic Society of America meeting in January 2001"--Preface |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 451 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-436) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780262268851 026226885X 0585481768 9780585481760 0262025361 9780262025362 |