Professional Documents
Culture Documents
http://humanities.lit.nagoya-
u.ac.jp/~illusion/gallery/NVEG/on_off/MullerLyer01_e.html
Session 2:
perception/vision/2D to 3D/human eye
Session 2
perception/vision/bottom up-top down
property extraction
depth and size perception
Gestalt principles
contextual integration
http://www.cs.ucla.e
du/~cguo/primal_sk
etch.htm
Session 2
perception/auditory/language
Session 2
perception/vision/
Perception can be viewed as an active and
constructive process (constructivist view)
It is „something more than the direct registration of
sensation“
„Other events intervene between stimulation and
experience“ (Gordon, 1989
Session 2
perception/vision/
Chomsky‘s questions:
How powerful must human language be?
cf. Chomsky hierarchy
How should it be described?
cf. Principles and Parameters (P&P)
Session 2:
Describing language:
Chomsky
Chomsky has argued that human beings have a „genetically
endowed language faculty“
(s) All the passengers on the plane would rather listen to Abbott and
Costello than watch another crummy movie.
Phenomenon 2:
Now, consider:
- Many linguists are thought to be odd.
- The people who are standing there will leave soon.
Session 2:
On structure dependency
has no
limitations
capable of
producing
type 0
grammars
Session 2:
Automata theory: Turing machine
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries
/turing
Session 2:
Automata theory: Turing machine