Scandinavian Dialect Syntax (before and after) 2005

Learning Meaning Before Syntax

We present a simple computational model that takes into account semantics for languagelearning, as motivated by readings in the literature of children’s language acquisition and by adesire to incorporate a robust notion of semantics in the field of Grammatical Inference. Weargue that not only is it more natural to take into account semantics, but also that semanticinformation ca...

Chamau: an Ml Dialect with Quotations, Grammars, and Extensible Syntax

We present 1 Chamau, a dialect of ML, enriched with support for concrete syntax manipulations. Chamau has the following original features: quotations, allowing the programmer to give a user-deened syntax to arbitrary values, and extensible grammars: a library to ease parser deenitions. Moreover, Chamau's concrete syntax is itself extensible, which makes it possible to specialize the language to...

Language evolution: syntax before phonology?

Phonology and syntax represent two layers of sound combination central to language's expressive power. Comparative animal studies represent one approach to understand the origins of these combinatorial layers. Traditionally, phonology, where meaningless sounds form words, has been considered a simpler combination than syntax, and thus should be more common in animals. A linguistically informed ...

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"Oh, I've Heard That Before": Modelling Own-Dialect Bias After Perceptual Learning by Weighting Training Data

Human listeners are able to quickly and robustly adapt to new accents and do so by using information about speaker’s identities. This paper will present experimental evidence that, even considering information about speaker’s identities, listeners retain a strong bias towards the acoustics of their own dialect after dialect learning. Participants’ behaviour was accurately mimicked by a classifi...