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Probabilistic linguistics

Bod, Rens, - Personal Name; Hay, Jennifer. - Personal Name; Jannedy, Stefanie. - Personal Name;

" ... originated as a symposium on 'Probability theory in linguistics' held in Washington, D.C. as part of the Linguistic Society of America meeting in January 2001"--Preface.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. This book presents a comprehensive introduction to probabilistic approaches to linguistic inquiry. It covers the application of probabilistic techniques to phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. It also includes a tutorial on elementary probability theory and probabilistic grammars.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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Publisher: Cambridge, MA : : MIT Press,., 2003.
Collation: 1 online resource (xii, 451 pages) :illustrations
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 9780262268851
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Media Type: computer
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Subject(s): Linguistics
Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
Probabilities.
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Statement of Responsibility: edited by Rens Bod, Jennifer Hay, and Stefanie Jannedy.

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Cataloger: Kholif Basri
Source: https://direct.mit.edu/books/edited-volume/5597/Probabilistic-Linguistics
Validator: Kholif Basri
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/5582.001.0001
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