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Insights into Early Word Comprehension - Tracking the Neural Representations of Word Semantics in Infants
DownloadSpring 2022
Infants start developing rudimentary language skills and can start understanding simple words well before their first birthday. This development has also been shown primarily using Event Related Potential (ERP) techniques to find evidence of word comprehension in the infant brain. While these...
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Fall 2021
We leverage multilingual translations from parallel corpora to improve sense annotations, build end-to-end Word Sense Disambiguation pipelines and detect cross-lingual lexical entailment. Based on theories of translational equivalence, we propose novel algorithms capable of correcting noisy sense...
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2012
Pelletier, Francis J., Lepore, Ernest
This paper is an investigation into the role of linguistics in philosophical theorizing. In particular, we will show how linguistic evidence can be adduced in support of an event approach to action verbs and their adverbial modifiers: if we increase the adicity of verbs, if we allow there to be...
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2008
The aim of this article is to illustrate how a belief in the existence of kinds may be justified for the particular case of natural kinds: particularly noteworthy in this respect is the weight borne by scientific natural kinds (e.g., physical, chemical, and biological kinds) in (i) inductive...
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1993
Nominalists, it is said, are defined by their opposition to the needless multiplication of entities. For most fourteenth-century nominalists, parsimony was in the first instance a logico-semantic matter, raising the question of how one should explain the truth conditions of sentences without...
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Spring 2020
Applications of formal logic often require the language of the logics to be sufficiently expressive, capturing notions such as necessity, possibility, subject-predicate sentences, quantified sentences, and identity. To this end, logics employ modal operators, first order quantifiers, and an...
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Spring 2012
The Naïve Theory is one the dominant accounts amongst philosophers of language. This theory has much to offer, however it does not in all cases bode well with intuitions. Two puzzles are raised and investigated here. The first is a puzzle regarding certain simple sentences. The Naïve Theory does...