Notebooks on Language

Commentaries on literature about language, thought, and action

Sunday, October 10, 2021

Khalil Sima'an: "Complexity of Disambiguation under DOP1" (2003)

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I haven't written here in a while, but I've recently learned a few things I want to write down for later reference. The goal of the ...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Bell: "Bertlmann's Socks and the Nature of Reality" (1980)

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There seems to be a lot of mystery surrounding Bell's theorems. Scholarpedia has a whole section devoted to " controversy and comm...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Billsingley: Ergodic Theory and Information (1965), pp. 12–14

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In the process of proving the ergodic theorem, Billingsley also provides in passing a proof for a weaker theorem related to mixing operation...
Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Billingsley: Probability and Measure, Ch. 1.4

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Prompted by what I found to be quite confusing about Patrick Billingsley's presentation of Kolmogorov's zero-one law, I've been ...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

Billingsley: Ergodic Theory and Information (1965)

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I'm reading this book (now for the second time) for its proof of Birkhoff's ergodic theorem. I was held up by lots of technical deta...
Monday, May 25, 2015

Newman et al.: "An Event-Related fMRI Study of Syntactic and Semantic Violations" (2001)

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This paper reports on a brain imaging study in which people were given either ordinary English sentences or sentences with one of two types ...

Lau, Phillips, and Peoppel: "A cortical network for semantics" (2008)

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This paper contrasts two competing hypotheses about what the N400 signals: an "integration" theory which alleges that "the ...
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