Ambiguity and the origins of syntax

© 2015, De Gruyter Mouton. All rights reserved. The paper argues that syntax is motivated by the need to avoid combinatorial search in parsing and semantic ambiguity in interpretation. It reports on a case study for the emergence and sharing of first-order phrase structures in a population of agents...

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Autores: Steels, Luc, Garcia Casademont, Emília
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Palabra clave:Origins of syntax
Language games
Semiotic dynamics
Language strategies
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spelling Ambiguity and the origins of syntaxSteels, LucGarcia Casademont, EmíliaOrigins of syntaxLanguage gamesSemiotic dynamicsLanguage strategies© 2015, De Gruyter Mouton. All rights reserved. The paper argues that syntax is motivated by the need to avoid combinatorial search in parsing and semantic ambiguity in interpretation. It reports on a case study for the emergence and sharing of first-order phrase structures in a population of agents playing language games. First-order phrase structures combine words into phrases but do not yet generalise to hierarchical or recursive phrases. To study why human languages exhibit phrase structure, a series of strategies for creating and sharing linguistic conventions are examined, starting from a lexical strategy without syntax and then studying the use of groups, n-grams and patterns. Each time we show in which way a strategy improves on the computational complexity of the previous on.The authors gratefully acknowledge funding from ICREA (for LS) and from the FP7 EU Project Insight (for EGC).Peer ReviewedWalter de GruyterEuropean CommissionInstitución Catalana de Investigación y Estudios AvanzadosConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]2015201520152015info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/123285reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Inglés#PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE#info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/308943http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2014-0021Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/1232852026-05-22T06:33:51Z
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title Ambiguity and the origins of syntax
spellingShingle Ambiguity and the origins of syntax
Steels, Luc
Origins of syntax
Language games
Semiotic dynamics
Language strategies
title_short Ambiguity and the origins of syntax
title_full Ambiguity and the origins of syntax
title_fullStr Ambiguity and the origins of syntax
title_full_unstemmed Ambiguity and the origins of syntax
title_sort Ambiguity and the origins of syntax
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Steels, Luc
Garcia Casademont, Emília
author Steels, Luc
author_facet Steels, Luc
Garcia Casademont, Emília
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Institución Catalana de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Origins of syntax
Language games
Semiotic dynamics
Language strategies
topic Origins of syntax
Language games
Semiotic dynamics
Language strategies
description © 2015, De Gruyter Mouton. All rights reserved. The paper argues that syntax is motivated by the need to avoid combinatorial search in parsing and semantic ambiguity in interpretation. It reports on a case study for the emergence and sharing of first-order phrase structures in a population of agents playing language games. First-order phrase structures combine words into phrases but do not yet generalise to hierarchical or recursive phrases. To study why human languages exhibit phrase structure, a series of strategies for creating and sharing linguistic conventions are examined, starting from a lexical strategy without syntax and then studying the use of groups, n-grams and patterns. Each time we show in which way a strategy improves on the computational complexity of the previous on.
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