MEMOLI · Measuring and Modelling Language Interactions
7РП — „Хора“ (Действия „Мария Кюри“)
- Период
- 2014-07-01 → 2018-06-30
- Финансиране от ЕС
- 100 000 €
- Участници
- 1
- Схема
- MC-CIG
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Накратко на български
Взаимодействията между езици при миграции, като при йдиш и ладино, се анализират чрез математически модели на граматиката. Това помага да се разбере как хората усвояват езици в многоезична среда и защо допускат грешки при говорене.
Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.
Резултати накратко
Measuring and Modelling Language Interactions
Large-scale migrations result in different languages and cultures getting in contact with each other. It happened so in the past, and continues happening so in the 21st century Europe. Jewish languages, such as Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic or Judeo-Italian, represent eminent examples of such linguistic and cultural interactions, and they have served as motivating examples for our project. The language knowledge ("competence") in a speaker's mind has been modelled by two linguistic frameworks: Optimality Theory and Harmonic Grammar. The two approaches are very close in that both are constraint-based. Yet, these constraints are combined differently into a single grammar. Moreover, a single speaker growing up in a multilingual environment may develop parallel grammars, each corresponding to a separate language, or language variety, in the environment. Language acquisition is never perfect, and the linguistic input from different languages (or language varieties) may also influence the process. Language production is not perfect, either, as speakers tend to make mistakes due to a number of reasons. The research fellow, earlier in his career, had developed a symbolic simulated annealing model of language production based on Optimality Theory. In the framework of the current project, he had developed this model further in order to be able to understand contact language situations, such as those mentioned above. In particular: 1. He has compared the behaviour of Optimality Theory to Harmonic Grammar when both are implemented using simulated annealing. It turns out that the implementation of Optimality Theory is faster, but more prone to errors. 2. He has developed a learning algorithm to model the acquisition of a language that presupposes the learner to entertain parallel grammars, as it is expected in the case of a multilingual environment. 3. He has applied Enoch O. Aboh’s notion "hybrid grammars" to interpret Yiddish plural morphology, using Luigi Burzio's notion of "representational entailments" implemented computationally. Beside these computational experiments, he has also carried out two experiments, both focussing on Hungarian vowel harmony. In one of them, he demonstrated that production frequencies may be dependent on speech rate, corroborating his simulated annealing model. In the other experiment, he has collected data for the hypothesis that speakers may take into account a word's origin ("naive etymology") even when no explicit co-phonologies are present in the language.
Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз
Цел на проекта
Large-scale migrations result in different languages and cultures getting in contact with each other. It happened so in the past, and continues happening so in the 21st century Europe. Jewish languages, such as Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic or Judeo-Italian, represent eminent examples of such linguistic and cultural interactions, and they will serve as case studies in our project.The present project is composed of two parts. Language interaction, as exemplified by Yiddish and other Jewish languages, will be first measured using contemporary techniques in dialectometry. The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (LCAAJ) will serve as the dataset for understanding how cultural and linguistic features have spread in Jewish communities across Europe, and how these features interact with the local non-Jewish cultures and languages.Second, the quantitative picture thus arrived at will be reproduced using computer simulations. These simulations will combine social network models with cognitive architectures. The social structure and historical change will be approached by a multi-agent version of the Iterative Learning Model. Then, each agent will be equipped with a linguistically motivated cognitive architecture representing the linguistic knowledge in each agent's mind. In particular, the project focuses on Optimality Theory (OT) and its variants (Harmonic Grammar, Maximum Entropy OT, Simulated Annealing for OT, etc.). These contemporary linguistic frameworks come with elaborated learning algorithms, and are implemented by the applicant's OTKit software package.Dialectometry, as well as computer simulations with cognitive models and social networks represent state-of-the-art techniques hardly applied to the study of Jewish languages. The applicant has acquired these techniques in the Netherlands and the United States, and he will transfer them to Hungary.
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
Участници
- EOTVOS LORAND TUDOMANYEGYETEM · BudapestКоординаторУнгария
Връзки
Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз