People Flashcards
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Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz
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- His idea of categorial grammar draws on idea from Fourth Logical Investigation and gives mathematical characterization to the notation of classical quantificational logic
- opportunistic application of math to natural language
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Yehoshua Bar-Hillel
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- better exploration of how categorial grammar might apply to NL
3
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Leonard Bloomfield
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- studied Panini’s grammar
- phonology, morphology, syntax
- categorized ling as a branch of psych (behaviorist)
4
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Noam Chomsky
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- rewriting/semi-Thue systems
- these systems should be used to formalize immediate constituency analysis
- did NOT invent linguistics
- poverty of stimulus argument
- Experience –> Language Acquisition Device –> Grammatical competence
- I-Language
- critic of behaviorism
- linked psychology and linguistics
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Charles Hockett
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- furthered Bloomfield’s work
6
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Joachim Lam-bek
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- Lambek calculus explains recursive expressions of NL, is a generalization of categorial grammar
7
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Panini
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- Astadhyayı
- phonological and morphological rules
8
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Rulon Wells
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- furthered Bloomfield’s work
9
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Ferdinand de Saussure
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- diachronic and synchronic views of language
10
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B. F. Skinner
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- behavioral psychologist
11
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Alfred Tarski
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- model theory - find out how values associated with subexpressions determine the value of the expressions they comprise
12
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Nikolaas Tinbergen
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- zoologist
- ethology grew out of his work
13
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John B. Watson
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- behavioral psychologist
14
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Zellig Harris
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- furthered Bloomfield’s work
15
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Wilhelm Wundt
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- established psychology as an empirical science separate from philosophy
- something about entities which is like y and wut
