论文标题

正式语法的范式更改:英语语法中的计算算法

A Paradigm Change for Formal Syntax: Computational Algorithms in the Grammar of English

论文作者

Ninio, Anat

论文摘要

语言科学越来越不依赖正式语法作为其基础。原因可能是它缺乏心理现实,理解避免了。科学的哲学家要求进行范式转变,其中解释是通过机制的,就像生物学一样。我们转向编程语言作为基于过程的英语语法的启发式模型。选择功能单词和内容词的组合被选为建模的主题。这种组合非常频繁,它们的输出是句子的重要立即成分。我们发现它们在面向对象的编程中并行,其中全方法元素用作接口,并且内容 - 满足元素用作其实现,从而定义了计算对象。通过得出对算法至关重要的三个功能特性并检查其在英语语法中的存在来测试该模型的拟合度。我们在心理语言和神经语言学证据方面测试了界面实施机制的现实,这些证据涉及语法的处理,发展和丢失。该机制的近距离拟合和心理现实表明,范式转移到语法算法理论是可能的。

Language sciences rely less and less on formal syntax as their base. The reason is probably its lack of psychological reality, knowingly avoided. Philosophers of science call for a paradigm shift in which explanations are by mechanisms, as in biology. We turned to programming languages as heuristic models for a process-based syntax of English. The combination of a functional word and a content word was chosen as the topic of modeling. Such combinations are very frequent, and their output is the important immediate constituents of sentences. We found their parallel in Object Oriented Programming where an all-methods element serves as an interface, and the content-full element serves as its implementation, defining computational objects. The fit of the model was tested by deriving three functional characteristics crucial for the algorithm and checking their presence in English grammar. We tested the reality of the interface-implementation mechanism on psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic evidence concerning processing, development and loss of syntax. The close fit and psychological reality of the mechanism suggests that a paradigm shift to an algorithmic theory of syntax is a possibility.

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