確率的言語学<br>Probabilistic Linguistics (Probabilistic Linguistics)

確率的言語学
Probabilistic Linguistics (Probabilistic Linguistics)

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版/ページ数 464 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780262523387
  • DDC分類 410.151

基本説明

新たなオルタナティヴ、言語への確率的アプローチの包括的入門。各分野への応用例、確率理論の初歩、及び確率文法の解説を含む。
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.
"A Bradford Book"

Full Description


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.