Language Computations: DIMACS Workshop on Human Language, March 20-22, 1992Eric Sven Ristad This book contains the refereed proceedings of the DIMACS Workshop on Human Language, held in March 1992 at Princeton University. The workshop drew together many of the world's most prominent linguists, computer scientists, and learning theorists to focus on language computations. A language computation is a computation that underlies the comprehension, production, or acquisition of human language. These computations lie at the very heart of human language. This volume aims to advance understanding of language computation, with a focus on computations related to the sounds and words of a language. The book investigates sensory-motor representation of speech sounds (phonetics), phonological stress, problems in language acquisition, and the relation between the sound and the meaning of words (morphology). The articles are directed toward researchers with an interest in human language and in computation. Although no article requires expertise in linguistics or computer science, some background in these areas is helpful, and the book provides relevant references. |
Contents
A computational model of phonetic implementation | 1 |
Relating phonetic and phonological categories | 21 |
General properties of stress and metrical structure | 37 |
Acquiring stress systems | 71 |
Metrical consistency | 93 |
Inductive reasoning | 127 |
Language acquisition in the MDL framework | 149 |
Factoring Words | 167 |
Complexity of morpheme acquisition | 185 |
Common terms and phrases
acoustic algorithm analysis apply articulatory plan assigned assume autosegments Basic Parse binary bounded constituents code length complexity computational concatenation consonant constraints defined derivation distribution Edge:LLL Edge:RRR elements encode English example extrametrical fact foot framework function Garawa gestures given grammar Head:L heavy syllables hypothesis ICC:L inductive reasoning initial input Khalkha Kolmogorov complexity learner learning lexical light syllables linguistic long vowel main stress Mathematics Subject Classification MDL principle Metrical Consistency metrical constituent metrical grid metrical structure metrical theory minimum description length model class morphemes morpho-phonological morphological natural language parameter settings parenthesis parse phonetic phonetic features phonetic goal phonological correlates prediction prefix code prior probability problem Project:L Prosodic rightmost rules secondary stresses segment Selkup speech stem stress contours stress patterns stress systems string suffix syllable structure tier Universal Grammar Warao weak syllable x x x x x x(x x x(x x