Jerry Feldman's paper [5] is to be welcomed in seeking to link linguistic compositional semantics to some form of nonlinguistic conceptual composition. In fact, I'd like to press the question, and ask why concepts are compositional, and what it is that allows human conceptual compositionality to sup
Compositionality, language and intention: Commentary on “Embodied language, best fit analysis, and formal compositionality” by J. Feldman
✍ Scribed by James F. Allen
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 65 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1571-0645
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