Diagnostics and Repairs in Fluid Construction Grammar

Beuls, Katrien; Trijp, Remi van; Wellens, Pieter

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“…of an action in terms of more abstract semantic roles and invent case markers for expressing those roles in language, using a meta-level architecture as described by Beuls et al (2012). Figure 13.14 provides more insights into the semiotic dynamics of the evolved case systems.…”

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Language Grounding in Robots

Steels

Hild

2012

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Language Grounding in Robots

Steels

Hild

2012

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“…More specifically, the meta-layer contains diagnostics for detecting problems in routine processing and repairs for solving those problems. Operational examples of diagnostics and repairs, including coercion and constructional learning, can be found in Steels and van Trijp (2011), Beuls, van Trijp, & Wellens (2012), and van Trijp (2012).…”

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A comparison between Fluid Construction Grammar and Sign-Based Construction Grammar

Trijp

2013

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Construction Grammar has reached a stage of maturity where many researchers are looking for an explicit formal grounding of their work. Recently, there have been exciting developments to cater for this demand, most notably in Sign-Based Construction Grammar (SBCG) and Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG). Unfortunately, like playing a music instrument, the formalisms used by SBCG and FCG take time and effort to master, and linguists who are unfamiliar with them may not always appreciate the far-reaching theoretical consequences of adopting this or that approach. This paper undresses SBCG and FCG to their bare essentials, and offers a linguist-friendly comparison that looks at how both approaches define constructions, linguistic knowledge and language processing.

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“…There is no artificial UG providing language skills, and no 'genetic mutation' changing the hardware to handle language. The second employed formalism uses a cognitive linguistic approach as well: Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG, Steels, 2011a) was developed to cope with both production (mapping meaning to form on the speaker's side) and parsing (reconstructing meaning from form on the hearer's side) acknowledging the continuum of meaning and form (and semantic and syntactic poles, respectively) 3 proposed by authors such as Goldberg (1995), Kay and Fillmore (1999) and Croft (2001) and equipped with a double-layered architecture incorporating diagnostics and repair (meta-language processing, i.e. 'knowing what one talks about', cf.…”

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“…'knowing what one talks about', cf. Beuls, van Trijp & Wellens, 2012). Over many interactions the phenomena of selforganization and selection can be observed together with more general principles of structure emerging in a population.…”

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A Co-evolved Continuum of Language, Culture and Cognition: Prospects of In-terdisciplinary Research

Nölle

2014

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This paper deals with questions of language evolution and discusses the emergence of linguistic communication systems in the framework of a co-evolving continuum of language, culture and cognition. Different approaches have tried to unravel the mechanisms underlying language evolution and put emphasis on different aspects, for instance, biological vs. cultural mechanisms. While both are important, I will argue that at least a strong nativism should be refuted. After comparing both approaches, evidence from various lines of research (but especially agent-based models) will be reviewed to argue for the existence of cultural evolutionary processes. In these experiments linguistic structure emerges from scratch via self-organization and selection merely due to interaction and cultural transmission. At the same time, the diversity we can observe in growing cross-linguistic data suggests that many grammatical and conceptual categories that had been considered 'universal' do in fact vary. These findings, especially in the semantic domain of space have led to claims about the relation of language and general cognition and a revival of the linguistic relativity hypothesis, but it remains unclear in which directions language, culture and cognition interact. Here I argue that these problems can be approached in the presented framework from an evolutionary perspective. I propose how to address them empirically by combining agent-based models, experimental semiotics and insights from comparative linguistics. I further aim to stress the importance of the ecological environment in evolutionary models and give examples of how it can be taken into account in future empirical work.

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Diagnostics and Repairs in Fluid Construction Grammar

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

Language Grounding in Robots

Language Grounding in Robots

A comparison between Fluid Construction Grammar and Sign-Based Construction Grammar

A Co-evolved Continuum of Language, Culture and Cognition: Prospects of In-terdisciplinary Research

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