This work is a contribution to the philosophy and psychology of language. The first part develops the author's theory of congruence of meaning which is a generalization of the standard notion of synonomy. The book then presents a number of empirical studies of the syntax and semantics of children's language and develops the author's variable-free semantics, which is meant to express the semantic structure of ordinary language in a more natural way than does first-order logic. The last section of the book is devoted to a number of studies by the author and his colleagues on language interaction with robots, the last study being concerned with robotic machine learning of natural language.
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978-0-631-18262-7 (9780631182627)
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Part I: Congruence of Meaning 1. Congruence of Meaning 2. A Puzzle about Responsive and Congruence of Meaning 3. Congruency Theory of Propositions 4. The Primacy of Utterer Meaning Part II: Psychology of Children's Learning 5. Young Children's Comprehension of Logical Connectives 6. The Semantics of Children's Language 7. On the Grammar and Model Theoretic Semantics of Children's Noun Phrases 8. Syntax and Semantics of Children's Language 9. Steps Toward a Variable-free Semantics 10. Semantics of Context-free Fragments of Natural Languages 11. Elimination of Quantifiers 12. Variable-free semantics for Negations with Prosodic Variation 13. Procedural Semantics 14. Variable-free Semantics with Remarks on Procedural Extensions 15. Logical Inference in English: A Preliminary Analysis Part III: Robots 16. Natural Language Interface for an Instructable Robot 17. Types of Verbal Interaction with Instructable Robots 18. Context-fixing Semantics for the Language of Action 19. Application of Learning Models to Speech Recognition over a Telephone 20. Robots that Learn: A Test of Intelligence References.
