The Evolution of Language 2008
DOI: 10.1142/9789812776129_0005
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Expressing Second Order Semantics and the Emergence of Recursion

Abstract: Although most previous model-based research has not moved beyond first-order semantics, human languages are clearly capable of expressing second-order semantics: the meanings expressed in a sentence do not only consist of conjunctions of first-order predicates but also predicates that take other predicates as an argument. In this paper we report on multi-agent language game experiments in which agents handle second-order semantics. We focus our discussion on how this type of research is able to provide fundame… Show more

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“…It should thus be adoptable in a wide array of experimental and theoretical settings. One particular setting is presented elsewhere in this collection (Bleys, 2008).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It should thus be adoptable in a wide array of experimental and theoretical settings. One particular setting is presented elsewhere in this collection (Bleys, 2008).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Second, it constrains the way in which cognitive operations can be combined in networks (see Section 8.5.1). And third, they can provide a seed for semantic and syntactic categories in the grammar that expresses semantic structures: an distinction on the semantic level between objects and events could be reflected in categories such as noun and verb (see Bleys, 2008;, for experiments in this direction). Fig.…”
Section: Semantic Entitiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…More elaborate examples how to map IRL to FCG and syntactic knowledge can be found in for temporal language, in for spatial language and in (Bleys, 2008) for color.…”
Section: Relation To Languagementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…These templates will be illustrated by giving examples of coupled feature structures (see §2.2.3), which allow to express the semantic constraint networks in language. Example constructions are described that can build up these coupled feature structures (Bleys 2006;Steels & Bleys 2007;Bleys 2008). Natural language systems are implemented by providing actual ontologies and linguistic inventories to express these ontologies in language.…”
Section: Language Strategies For Colour Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%