Lexicalist vs. exoskeletal approaches to language mixing

Teaching approaches to Computer Assisted Language Learning

Computers have been used for language teaching ever since the 1960's.Learning a second language is a challenging endeavor, and, for decades now, proponents of computer assisted language learning (CALL) have declared that help is on the horison. We investigate the suitability of deploying speech technology in computer based systems that can be used to teach foreign language skills. In this case,...

Five Approaches to Language

rule learning in human and non-human animals . . . . . . . 73 Reiko Hoshi-Shiba, Fang Sun, Kenta Suzuki, Dilshat Abla, Kazuo Okanoya Combinational vocal usage for emotional expression in common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Yoko Kato, Hayato Gokan, Arata Oh-Nishi, Takafumi Minamimoto Vocal deviance detection in auditory cortex of a so...

Computational approaches to figurative language

concepts that are associated with the same source domain are often related to each other in the way we conceptualise them, but their meanings are not necessarily synonymous or even semantically close. Compare, for example, the target concepts MARRIAGE and POLITICAL REGIME. Although not directly related in semantic space, they are both metaphorically mapped to the source concept of MECHANISM (e....

Computational Approaches to Figurative Language

The heading figurative language subsumes multiple phenomena that can be used to perform most linguistic functions including predication, modification, and reference. Figurative language can tap into conceptual and linguistic knowledge (as in the case of idioms, metaphor, and some metonymies) as well as evoke pragmatic factors in interpretation (as in indirect speech acts, humor, irony, or sarca...

Structural vs. Atheoretic Approaches to Econometrics