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Adventures with Camille

Published on Feb 25, 20074344 Views

A computational simulation of a minimalist language learner

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Adventures with Camille, a Computational Simulation of a Minimalist Language Learner00:02
Questions00:39
Outline02:00
Perspectives02:58
The standard view03:35
An alternative view04:11
The challenge... 05:00
The challenge, cont’d05:35
A Constructionist Manifesto06:24
Constructionalism07:28
Simple Syntax10:11
The Correspondence Spectrum10:35
Words10:39
Idioms10:54
VP constructional idioms11:57
Syntax-semantics mismatches13:21
Motto: Construction of language produces constructions in language13:34
How does the learner know what she/he is dealing with?14:33
CAMiLLe15:18
Goals of CAMiLLe16:30
The spatial metaphor Regions = categories/features (slice of a many dimensional space)17:49
N -> A N18:36
N -> A N - Recursion19:01
Strategy19:32
Success - faliure20:38
A Concrete Minimalist Learner20:44