Probabilistic linguistics
Rens Bod, Jennifer Hay, Stefanie Jannedy
For the past forty years, linguistics has been dominated by the idea that language is categorical and linguistic competence discrete. It has become increasingly clear, however, that many levels of representation, from phonemes to sentence structure, show probabilistic properties, as does the language faculty. Probabilistic linguistics conceptualizes categories as distributions and views knowledge of language not as a minimal set of categorical constraints but as a set of gradient rules that may be characterized by a statistical distribution. Whereas categorical approaches focus on the endpoints of distributions of linguistic phenomena, probabilistic approaches focus on the gradient middle ground. Probabilistic linguistics integrates all the progress made by linguistics thus far with a probabilistic perspective.
种类:
年:
2003
出版社:
The MIT Press
语言:
english
页:
464
ISBN 10:
0262523388
ISBN 13:
9780262523387
系列:
Bradford Books
文件:
PDF, 5.10 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2003