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Language identification of names with SVMs

The task of identifying the language of text or utterances has a number of applications in natural language processing. Language identification has traditionally been approached with character-level language models. However, the language model approach crucially depends on the length of the text in question. In this paper, we consider the problem of language identification of names. We show tha...

Gesture and Language Dialectic

A classic psycholinguistic problem is parole; in its modern formulation, performance . This paper looks at aspects of parole or performance from a new direction, arguing that it is organized as a dialectic of unlike cognitive modes, a dialectic of gesture imagery and language. This dialectic is the key to the evocation, organization, and ultimate execution of meaningful actions shaped to take l...

Language and Gesture Evolution

Language as gesture.

Language can be understood as an embodied system, expressible as gestures. Perception of these gestures depends on the "mirror system," first discovered in monkeys, in which the same neural elements respond both when the animal makes a movement and when it perceives the same movement made by others. This system allows gestures to be understood in terms of how they are produced, as in the so-cal...

Gesture and language

In this paper I explore the role of gesture in the development of signed languages. Using data from American Sign Language, Catalan Sign Language, French Sign Language, and Italian Sign Language, as well as historical sources describing gesture in the Mediterranean region, I demonstrate that gesture enters the linguistic system via two distinct routes. In one, gesture serves as a source of lexi...