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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"human language"”.
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Repetition avoidance in human language
Repetition is avoided in countless human languages and at a variety of grammatical levels. In this dissertation I ask what it is that makes repetition so bad. I propose that at least three distinct biases against repetition exist. First, repetition of articulatory gestures is relatively difficult. …
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Computational structure of human language
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1990.
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Studying dialects to understand human language
… of dialect variations as a way to understand how humans might process speech. It evaluates some of the important research in dialect identification and draws conclusions about how their results can give insights into human speech processing. A study clustering dialects using k-means clustering is …
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Center-embedding and self-embedding in human language processing
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1995.
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Three-Dimensional Constraints on Human Cognition as Expressed in Human Language
Those advocating the existence of a distinct language instinct generally claim that human language is not reliant on general human cognition. However, limitations on recursive patterns in human language are universally attested, from the micro-level elements of phonology, throughout the mid-level …
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Learning commonsense human-language descriptions from temporal and spatial sensor-network data
… description of these sense data in meaningful human-language. This is an important problem that appears across domains ranging from organizational security surveillance to individual activity journaling. Previous models of activity recognition pigeon-hole descriptions into small, formal …
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The Relationship between Linguistic Representations in Biological and Artificial Neural Networks
… the representations and algorithms that support human cognition, including language. The scientific tools for investigating human-unique capacities, such as language, have long been limited. For example, we do not have the option to learn about the neural circuits that support these capabilities …
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Communicative efficiency in the lexicon
… a variety of probabilistic patterns in natural language phonology derive from communicative efficiency. I present evidence from phonetically transcribed dictionaries of 60 languages from 25 major language families showing that both probability distributions over phonological structures licensed …
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Speak'st, Art Sound: The Material Voice in Early Modern England
… I pay special attention to the role of language as a semantic system of meaning. Current ecological criticism takes for granted the utter “flatness” of ontology, and as such discards the question of human language so central to previous deconstructive and discursive scholarship. My …
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Towards the Efficient, Scientific and Accessible Development of Small Language Models
Language models continue to grow in size, yet our understanding of their inner workings and ability to train them efficiently, particularly smaller models, remains limited. Small (sub-1 billion parameter) models offer practical advantages, including reduced financial and environmental costs, and …
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Language Comprehension, Production, and Reasoning in Humans and Neural Language Models
How closely do neural language models mirror human language processing, and what can this alignment teach us about cognition? This dissertation presents convergent evidence in comprehension, production, and reasoning that neural language models (LMs) can serve as productive instruments for …
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A phonological description of Wichí: The dialect of Misión La Paz, Salta, Argentina
<p>The Wichí language, a member of the Matacoan language family, is spoken in parts of South America’s Chaco region. Specifically, Wichí is found in the Salta, Chaco, and Formosa provinces of Argentina, as well as in southeastern Bolivia. Wichí is an endangered language, with speakers numbering c. …
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Who did what to whom : developmental perspectives on the meaning and communication of transitive events
Human language is notable for its expressivity; syntax is powerful and allows for potentially unlimited new sentences. But even simple transitive sentences like "I broke the lamp" provide a sophisticated tool for communication, capture the basic building blocks of syntax and semantics that are …
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Primitive computations in phrase construction
… principles, under the assumption that the human language faculty is a perfect system that performs only enough work to satisfy interface requirements. We consider processing costs as a property of syntactic computation and propose that these principles of economy may be met by the …
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Transfer learning and robustness for natural language processing
Teaching machines to understand human language is one of the most elusive and long-standing challenges in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Driven by the fast development of deep learning, state-of-the-art NLP models have already achieved human-level performance in various large benchmark …
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Vocalizing Behavior in Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) – an Evolutionary Account
In this thesis, we compare human language, as defined by Noam Chomsky in his biolinguistic account of language, with killer whale (Orcinus orca) vocalizations and what we call the orca vocalization and orca symbolic vocalization systems. We postulate hypothetical orca counterparts of the elements …
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Negotiating Environmental Relationships: Why Language Matters to Environmental Philosophy
The medium of language is important to environmental philosophy, and more specifically, to the establishment and understanding of environmental relationships. The differences between animal and human language point to our unique semantic range, which results from our neuro-linguistic process of …
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Exploring The Role Of Generative Artificial Intelligence In Cultural Relevant Storytelling For Native Language Learning Among Children
In an era marked by the rapid disappearance of languages, UNESCO warns that nearly half of the world's linguistic heritage might soon become dormant. Despite its current health, Telugu has seen a decline in usage, reduced focus in India's educational systems, and overshadowing by dominant global …
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