Full Description
Merging insights from cognitive linguistic theories of language and learning theories originating within psychology, Divjak and Milin present a new paradigm that has computational modelling at its core. They showcase the power of this interdisciplinary approach for linguistic theory, methodology and description. Through a series of detailed case studies that model usage of the English article system, the Polish aspectual system, English tense/aspect contrasts and the Serbian case system they show how computational models anchored in learning can provide a simple and comprehensive account of how intricate phenomena that have long defied a unified treatment could be learned from exposure to usage alone. As such, their models form the basis for a first rigorous test of a core assumption of usage-based linguistics: that of the emergence of structure from use.
Contents
Contents
Preface by the Series Editor
Preface by the Authors
About the Authors
Note on Supplementary Material
1 Usage-Based Linguistics
2 Memory and Attention
3 Construal
4 Learning
5 Allomorphy
6 How to Teach Machines to Learn
7 Inflectional Paradigms and Classes
8 The Unbearable Lightness of English Articles
9 Modelling Aspect: Do We Really Have a Choice?
10 Is the Past Perfect and the Present Continuous: Questioning the Cognitive Reality of Tense Label
References
About the Series Editor
Websites for Cognitive Linguistics and CIFCL Speakers
