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Conceptual alternatives: Competition in language and beyond
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In: Linguistics & Philosophy ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03102612 ; Linguistics & Philosophy, In press (2021)
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International audience ; Things we can say, and the ways in which we can say them, compete with one another. And this has consequences: words we decide not to pronounce have critical effects on the messages we end up conveying. For instance, in saying Chris is a good teacher, we may convey that Chris is not an amazing teacher. How this happens is an unsolvable problem, unless a theory of alternatives indicates what counts, among all the things that have not been pronounced. It is sometimes assumed, explicitly or implicitly, that any word counts, as long as that word could have replaced one that was actually pronounced. We review arguments for going beyond this powerful idea. In doing so, we argue that the level of words is not the right level of analysis for alternatives. Instead, we capitalize on recent conceptual and associated methodological advances within the study of the so-called "language of thought" to reopen the problem from a new perspective. Specifically, we provide theoretical and experimental arguments that the relation between alternatives and words may be indirect, and that alternatives are not linguistic objects in the traditional sense. Rather, we propose that competition in language is better seen as primarily determined by general reasoning preferences, or thought preferences (preferences that may have forged the lexicons of modern languages in the first place, as argued elsewhere). We propose that such non-linguistic preferences can be measured and that these measures can be used to explain linguistic competition, nonlinguistically, and more in depth.
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[SCCO]Cognitive science; concepts; formal semantics; language of thought; linguistic competition
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URL: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03102612/file/buccolaEtAl_20_Conceptual.4.pdf
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Covariant Subtyping Applied to Semantic Predicate Calculi
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In: LACL 2021 - Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics ; https://hal.inria.fr/hal-03542057 ; LACL 2021 - Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics, Dec 2021, Montpellier (online), France (2021)
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Dialogue Modeling in a Dynamic Framework ; Modélisation dynamique des dialogues
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In: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03541628 ; Computation and Language [cs.CL]. Université de Lorraine; École doctorale IAEM Lorraine - Informatique, Automatique, Électronique - Électrotechnique, Mathématiques de Lorraine, 2021. English. ⟨NNT : 2021LORR0199⟩ (2021)
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Approximation derived from a scalar exclusive particle associating with covert focus: The case of Hebrew be-sax ha-kol
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In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; Vol 6, No 1 (2021); 5 ; 2397-1835 (2021)
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Ideal Words: A Vector-Based Formalisation of Semantic Competence ...
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現代中国語の限定語の意味指示と論理分析 ; A Logical Analysis of the Semantic Orientation of Attributives in Mandarin Chinese
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劉 燕嵐; リュウ エンラン. - : 神奈川大学人文学会, 2021. : The Society of Humanities at Kanagawa University, 2021
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Translation of CCS into CSP, Correct up to Strong Bisimulation ; Springer LNCS ; Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 21)
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Ideal Words: A Vector-Based Formalisation of Semantic Competence
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Compositional Analysis of Turkish Agent Nominalizers
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In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic; Vol 5 (2020); 16-25 ; 2641-3485 (2021)
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‘Must’ implies ‘can’
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In: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03080446 ; 2020 (2020)
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