A Paris, dans le laboratoire Sony Computer Science Lab, il y a des chercheurs qui cherchent à savoir comment des agents artificiels peuvent auto-organiser des langages ayant certaines des propriétés des langues naturelles (ça peut être la créativité lexicale, l'économie morphologique, etc.).
Nous avons la chance de recevoir un chercheur de ce labo au prochain linglunch (jeudi 05 décembre, 12h, UFR de linguistique Paris Diderot), voici le résumé de son exposé:
| The German definite article paradigm, which is notorious for its case syncretism, is widely considered to be the accidental by-product of diachronic changes. In this presentation, I argue instead that the evolution of the paradigm has been motivated by the needs and constraints of language usage. This hypothesis is supported by experiments that compare the current paradigm to its Old High German ancestor (OHG; 900-1100AD) in terms of linguistic assessment criteria such as cue reliability, processing efficiency and ease of articulation. Such a comparison has been made possible by ``bringing back alive'' the OHG system through a computational reconstruction in the form of a processing model.The experiments demonstrate that syncretism has made the New High German system more efficient for processing, pronunciation and perception than its historical predecessor, without harming the language's strength at disambiguating utterances.
Background reading on the experiments:
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