Systematicity in the Lexicon
Systematicity in the Lexicon
On Having Your Cake and Eating It Too
Words are, if not exactly semantic ‘atoms’, at least assumed to be core elements of meaning. Their high degree of context dependence poses challenges to classic views of systematicity, however. In this chapter, I suggest an alternative view in which words are understood as cues to meaning rather than having intrinsic meaning themselves. This proposal is explored through experimental tests, and a computational model is developed that illustrates the properties of the ‘words-as-cues’ hypothesis.
Keywords: Lexicon, Simple recurrent network, Words-as-cues, Prediction, Event knowledge
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