Midterm (81 - 100) Flashcards
pragmatics vs semantics
semantics is meaning of language; pragmatics is use of those meanings
Bayesian inference
a method of statistical inference in which Bayes’ theorem is used to update the probability for a hypothesis as more evidence or information becomes available
Bayesian communication
author provides reader with appropriate likelihood function, reader provides prior belief and threshold values and machine calculates the implications
redundancy
refers to information that is expressed more than once
social recursion
“and he knew that she knew that he knew”
domain-general vs domain-specific
general: connectionism
specific: generativism
why only humans have language? - generativism
language module
why only humans have language? - connectionism
bigger/better brain
how do we learn a language? - generativism
innate rules
how do we learn a language? - connectionism
statistical learning
how do we produce words? - generativism
stepwise: concept - meaning - form
how do we produce words? - connectionism
parallel: all levels are activated together
how do we parse sentences? - generativism
incrementally: word by word
how do we parse sentences? - connectionism
competing structures
what is lost in aphasia? - generativism
specific knowledge
