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1 online resource (xii, 451 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Introduction / Jennifer Hay / Stefanie Jannedy / Rens Bod -- Ch. 2 Introduction to Elementary Probability Theory and Formal Stochastic Language Theory / Rens Bod -- Ch. 3 Probabilistic Modeling in Psycholinguistics: Linguistic Comprehension and Production / Dan Jurafsky -- Ch. 4 Probabilistic Sociolinguistics: Beyond Variable Rules / Stefanie Jannedy / Jennifer Hay / Norma Mendoza-Denton -- Ch. 5 Probability in Language Change / Kie Zuraw -- Ch. 6 Probabilistic Phonology: Discrimination and Robustness / Janet B. Pierrehumbert -- Ch. 7 Probabilistic Approaches to Morphology / R. Harald Baayen -- Ch. 8 Probabilistic Syntax / Christopher D. Manning -- Ch. 9 Probabilistic Approaches to Semantics / Ariel Cohen -- Glossary of Probabilistic Terms |
| Summary |
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 |
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LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General |
| Notes |
" ... 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-436) and indexes |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
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Linguistics -- Statistical methods.
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Probabilities.
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Probability
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probability.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Language.
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Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
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Linguistics -- Statistical methods
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Probabilities
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Waarschijnlijkheidstheorie.
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Linguïstiek.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bod, Rens, 1965-
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Hay, Jennifer
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Jannedy, Stefanie
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| ISBN |
9780262268851 |
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026226885X |
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0585481768 |
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9780585481760 |
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0262025361 |
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9780262025362 |
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