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Natural language consists of symbols that are signs (Jakobson, 1980). What makes language processing especially interesting as a test case for the theory of this book is that interactions between language symbols can be interpreted as relations between lexically defined combinatory properties (Debrock et al., 1999). As language appears ‘naturally’ in our experience, the introduction of a ‘naive’ model for language processing may enable us to answer the intriguing question: What is ‘natural’ in natural language?
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Sarbo, J.J., Farkas, J.I., van Breemen, A.J.J. (2011). Language signs. In: Knowledge in Formation. Cognitive Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17089-8_6
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