On an open issue of programming language phonetics.

On an open issue of programming language phonetics

For decades or more, a vexing question has plagued vocally-inclined mathematicians wishing to communicate in accepted variants of the English language: how properly to pronounce the word “tuple”. The issue has recently taken on a new urgency with the introduction into Eiffel of a widely used notion of TUPLE type. Yet progress towards a solution has been painfully slow. We propose a novel approa...

Programming Connectors In an Open Language

Connectors can be programmed exibly using an open language with a static meta-object protocol. Illustrated with an example from OpenJava, it is presented how such connectors insert communication code into classes transparently. With this method, connectors become meta-programs in the open language; connecting becomes a program transformation. The method paves the way for connector libraries whi...

Open Programming Language Interpreters

Context: This paper presents the concept of open programming language interpreters, a model to support them and a prototype implementation in the Neverlang framework for modular development of programming languages. Inquiry: We address the problem of dynamic interpreter adaptation to tailor the interpreter’s behaviour on the task to be solved and to introduce new features to fulfil unforeseen r...

Introduction to Special Issue on Natural Language and Logic Programming

Phonetics of first language acquisition

In the first two years of life, most children develop the phonetic scaffolding that is needed to acquire a first language. They learn to perceptually parse the sound patterns of the words and longer utterances that are being said in their hearing, and they learn to respond to phatic utterances that are said to them, practicing a perception-production feedback loop until their vocalizations have...