Language and Recursion

Lowenthal, F.

doi:10.1063/1.3527161

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“…The study of the linguistic process carried out by the human body teaches computational linguistics the importance of recursion as an intrinsic property of the linguistic procedure [25]. Language in its axiomatic-logical conception takes human cognition as a dynamic recursive process [41,42] that mediates between the social context (where the stimuli come from) and the human mind, that processes them symbolically [26,28]. This process makes it possible for the individual to exercise the ability to understand the world by integrating it with the symbolic function in the human mind [28,43].…”

Section: The Linguistic Process In the Bodymentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Language Conceptual Formation to Inspire Intelligent Systems

Monte-Serrat

Cattani

2022

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The semantic web invests in systems that work collaboratively. In this article we show that the collaborative way is not enough, because the system must ‘understand’ the data resources that are provided to it, to organize them in the direction indicated by the system’s core, the algorithm. In order for intelligent systems to imitate human cognition, in addition to technical skills to model algorithms, we show that the specialist needs a good knowledge of the principles that explain how human language constructs concepts. The content of this article focuses on the principles of the conceptual formation of language, pointing to aspects related to the environment, to logical reasoning and to the recursive process. We used the strategy of superimposing the dynamics of human cognition and intelligent systems to open new frontiers regarding the formation of concepts by human cognition. The dynamic aspect of the recursion of the human linguistic process integrates visual, auditory, tactile input stimuli, among others, to the central nervous system, where meaning is constructed. We conclude that the human linguistic process involves axiomatic (contextual/biological) and logical principles, and that the dynamics of the relationship between them takes place through recursive structures, which guarantee the construction of meanings through long-range correlation under scale invariance. Recursion and cognition are, therefore, interdependent elements of the linguistic process, making it a set of sui generis structures that evidence that the essence of language, whether natural or artificial, is a form and not a substance.

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Section: The Linguistic Process In the Bodymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The recursive aspect of speech is recognized by Lowenthal and Lefebvre [42], stating that it is necessary for language and cognition. Based on neuroimaging techniques, those authors consider the possibility of a specific brain structure for recursion extended to formal grammars.…”

Section: The Dynamics Of the Linguistic Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%