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Productivity and Reuse in Language : A Theory of Linguistic Computation and Storage /

"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 labor between a large inventory of stored items (e.g., affixes, words, idioms) and a computational system that productively combines the...

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Auteur principal: O'Donnell, Timothy J., 1977- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • The framework
  • Formalization of the models and Inference
  • The english past tense: abstraction and Competition
  • The english past tense: simulations
  • English derivational morphology: Productivity, Processing, and Ordering
  • English derivational morphology: Simulations
  • Conclusion
  • Past-tense inflectional classes
  • Derivational suffixes.