6.1383, Books: NLP, Cognitive Science, Phonetics&Phonology

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-1383. Tue Oct 10 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  108
 
Subject: 6.1383, Books: NLP, Cognitive Science, Phonetics&Phonology
 
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NLP
 
Bod, Rens  ENRICHING LINGUISTICS WITH STATISTICS: PERFORMANCE MODELS OF
NATURAL LANGUAGE  1995  148 pp., 90-74795-36-6/Pb, Academische Pers,
Amsterdam. For a copy at cost price ($12), contact: illc at fwi.uva.nl
 
The book motivates a statistical enrichment of linguistics from
a cognitive point of view. It then argues for a linguistic performance
model which employs a very large language corpus, that stands for a
person's past language experience, in which each sentence is annotated
with its appropriate (syntactic, semantic, pragmatic) analysis. An
analysis of a new sentence can be constructed out of combinations of
partial analyses that occur in the corpus. By combining the relative
frequencies of these partial analyses, the model is able to select from
all possible analyses of a sentence the analysis which is actually
perceived by a person. The book deals with six different realizations of
performance models, and goes into their formal, computational and
experimental aspects.
 
 
COGNITIVE SCIENCE
 
/O Nuall/ain, Se/an  THE SEARCH FOR MIND
              USA: Ablex, 1995
              US $49-50 (cloth), US $24-50 (paper) ISBN 1-56750-138-9 (cloth),
              ISBN 1-56750-138-7 (paper)
              Distributed by Ablex (1-201-767-8450)
              The  degree  to which   Cognitive Science  as currently
conceived can aspire to be the science of mind is a difficult issue.
"The Search for Mind" proposes  a   radical  new  integrated approach
to    Cognitive Science.
 
 
 
PHONETICS & PHONOLOGY
 
Hung, Henrietta J.; The Rhythmic and Prosodic Organization of Edge
	Constituents:  An Optimality-Theoretic Account; 178 pp.; Prepaid
	US$24.00 + 3.50 p&h (US)/5.00 (CAN)/5.50 (Other). IULC Publications,
	720 E. Atwater Ave., Bloomington IN 47401. <iulc at indiana.edu> For
	other titles, see our Web page at http://ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu/~iulc/
This book addresses the phenomenon traditionally known as
Extrametricality, whereby a final constituent is sometimes excluded for
the purposes of determining the location of stress.  Couched within the
framework of Optimality Theory, the analysis suggests that final stress
is non-rhythmic, and that depending on the position occupied by such a
constraint in the hierarchy of a given grammar, different effects will be
observed, one of these being Extrametricality.  Following examination of
several languages exhibiting this phenomenon, a typological analysis is
given.
 
 
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