SPARSENESS AND ENTROPY IN SEMANTIC CHANGE: PRECEDENTS FROM EARLY VISION
What is the difference between description and explanation in linguistics? We take explanation to be the reduction of description to independently motivated general principles. For language, a promising source of independently motivated general principles can be found in neuroscien...
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Language: | English |
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Universidad de Murcia
2007-06-01
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Series: | International Journal of English Studies (IJES) |
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Online Access: | http://revistas.um.es/ijes/article/view/48841 |