Ambiguity and the origins of syntax
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- dc.contributor.author Steels, Lucca
- dc.contributor.author Garcia Casademont, Emília, 1987-ca
- dc.date.accessioned 2016-02-01T13:24:18Z
- dc.date.available 2016-03-01T03:00:03Z
- dc.date.issued 2015
- dc.description.abstract The paper argues that syntax is motivated by the need to avoid combinatorial search in parsing and semantic ambiguity in interpretation. It reports on a case study for the emergence and sharing of first-order phrase structures in a population of agents playing language games. First-order phrase structures combine words into phrases but do not yet generalise to hierarchical or recursive phrases. To study why human languages exhibit phrase structure, a series of strategies for creating and sharing linguistic conventions are examined, starting from a lexical strategy without syntax and then studying the use of groups, n-grams and patterns. Each time we show in which way a strategy improves on the computational complexity of the previous on.ca
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- dc.identifier.citation Steels L, Garcia Casademont E. Ambiguity and the origins of syntax. The Linguistic Review. 2015;32(1):37-60. DOI: 10.1515/tlr-2014-0021ca
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2014-0021
- dc.identifier.issn 0167-6318
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/25706
- dc.language.iso engca
- dc.publisher De Gruyterca
- dc.relation.ispartof The Linguistic Review. 2015;32(1):37-60
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- dc.subject.keyword Origins of syntax
- dc.subject.keyword Language games
- dc.subject.keyword Language strategies
- dc.subject.other Gramàtica comparada i general Sintaxica
- dc.subject.other Semiòticaca
- dc.title Ambiguity and the origins of syntaxca
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/articleca
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