LING 1P92 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Statistical Model, Matrix Similarity, Usenet
12 Jan 2016
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Every language has words without meaning, and meaning without words. Sense (intension) and reference (extension) the referent prime minister. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet . Sense and reference (square and circle) changes but its sene. How is the meaning of a word represented in the mind? (psychological. How are lexical meanings organized in memory? (semantic memory) Sentence level semantics (compositional semantics) sentax interact (ex. Meaning is relative to the linguistic system (ferdinand de saussure 1916) Informed by philosophy of language and early generative linguistic theory. Philosophy: all concepts of human thought can be defined in terms of a. Bachelor" is composed of features [+human, +male, +adult, -married] combination of atomic ideas. Generative linguistics: linguistic categories consist of distinctive features (ex. Vowel in he" is +high, +front; vowel in haw" is high, -front) Lexicon is a list of entries with distinctive features (dictionary model) Word associations: association of words interpreted as feature-changing operations: add/delete/change.
