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This paper is an attempt at exploring the possibility of reconciling the two interpretations of biolinguistics which have been recently projected by Koster (Biolinguistics 3(1):61-92, 2009). The two interpretations-trivial and nontrivial-can be roughly construed as non-internalist and internalist conceptions of biolinguistics respectively. The internalist approach boils down to a conception of language where language as a mental grammar in the form of I-language grows and functions like a biological organ. On the other hand, under such a construal consistent with Koster's (Biolinguistics 3(1):61-92, 2009), the non-internalist version does not necessarily have to be externalist in nature; rather it is a matter of mutual reinforcement of biology and culture under the rubric of a co-evolutionary dynamics. Here it will be argued that the apparent dichotomy between these two conceptions of biolinguistics can perhaps be resolved if we have a richer synthesis that accounts for both internalism and non-internalism. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

Department of Liberal Arts

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Biosemiotics

Can Internalism and Externalism be Reconciled in a Biological Epistemology of Language?

This paper is aimed at uncovering a unifying computational grounding beneath a diverse range of cases of quantificational scope effects both within and across languages. Since quantificational scope readings are quite variable and interspersed with issues of modularity and interfaces of grammar, an underlying and universal generalization is certainly hard to come by. Research on quantification is not new at all; studies and research done on quantification have not yet been able to arrive at a useful but universally valid and satisfactorily unified account of how quantificational readings are derived at all, let alone computationally. Here in this paper, a preliminary sketch of a unified three-tier computational model will be drawn up to show how quantificational scope readings across languages can be computed and derived. For this purpose, principles drawn from recent derivational accounts of quantificational scope will be aligned properly to eliminate their incompatibilities with each other. © 2010 by Prakash Mondal.

PACLIC 24 - Proceedings of the 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation

Toward a unified computational model of quantificational scope readings

In this paper an exploratory map of what intelligent natural language processing systems can achieve will be drawn up, given the advances that have been made in recent years as revealed in the latest developments in practical applications of natural language technology in areas as diverse as natural language generation, natural language understanding, machine translation, dialog system etc. Here a mathematical exploration of the issue in question will lay out the constraints on what they can achieve in their goal of automatizing language processing that humans do. It will be shown that these constraints together constitute a fundamental limit which these systems seem to fail to cross.

International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP

How limited is the limit?

In this paper I aim at sketching out in bare outline a new model/framework of language processing with its implications for natural language processing. Research in theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics and mathematical linguistics has delineated the ways natural language can be represented and modeled. Studies in cognitive (neuro) science, on the other hand, have shown how language processing is implemented in human cognitive machinery. Here an attempt will be made to integrate all these findings into a mathematical model of language processing which will point to some potential constraints on what natural language processing can achieve or do and what it possibly cannot. © 2009 by Prakash Mondal.