Abstract Al-Fārābī conceived of music theory as a universal science melody whose task is to determine the whole range what musically possible. It does not restrict itself codifying conventions any particular musical idiom. In this, it akin logic – all things thinkable, which reduce grammar given natural language.

Categorical compositional distributional semantics is a model of natural language; it combines the statistical vector space models of words with the compositional models of grammar. We formalise in this model the generalised quantifier theory of natural language, due to Barwise and Cooper. The underlying setting is a compact closed category with bialgebras. We start from a generative grammar fo...

Grammatical Inference deals with the problem of learning structural models, such as grammars, from different sort of data patterns, such as artificial languages, natural languages, biosequences, speech and so on. This article describes a new grammatical inference tool, Grammar-based Classifier System (GCS) dedicated to learn grammar from data. GCS is a new model of Learning Classifier Systems i...

A grammar-based code losslessly compresses each finite-alphabet data string x by compressing a context-free grammar Gx which represents x in the sense that the language of Gx is {x}. In an earlier paper, we showed that if the grammar Gx is a type of grammar called irreducible grammar for every data string x, then the resulting grammar-based code has maximal redundancy/sample O(log log n/ log n)...

This study addresses the feasibility of the classical notion of parameter in linguistic theory from the perspective of parametric hierarchies. A novel program-based analysis is implemented in order to show certain empirical problems related to these hierarchies. The program was developed on the basis of an enriched data base spanning 23 contemporary and 5 ancient languages. The empirical issues...

The concern with word classes, parts ofspeech, or, as they are referred to in this paper, syntactic categories, dates back to antiquityfor better and for worse. For better, since in lingui stics, as in any other disc ipline, one sees further when standing on the shoulders of giants . But for worse, ifit is the case that the giants themselves are standing in the wrong place. Or, in the case at h...

There is much research on the syntax-semantics and syntax-phonology interaction. However, exact relation between prosodic patterns informational structure (as part of pragmatics) still to be investigated. In this empirical study, we challenge view that prosody pragmatics are two autonomous levels grammar. This paper an analysis narrative poem ‘Mending Wall’ recited by Robert Frost explore featu...

Scientists from various disciplines have begun to focus attention on the psychology and biology of human morality. One research program that has recently gained attention is universal moral grammar (UMG). UMG seeks to describe the nature and origin of moral knowledge by using concepts and models similar to those used in Chomsky's program in linguistics. This approach is thought to provide a fru...

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This paper describes a computational model of word segmentation and presents simulation results on realistic acquisition In particular, we explore the capacity and limitations of statistical learning mechanisms that have recently gained prominence in cognitive psychology and linguistics.