CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Animal Communication, Noun Phrase

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Major part of cgsc, because language is complex and explain how human minds work. Function: non human animals don"t have capacity for language. Computer: ways to talk to machine to tell it what to do. Does have syntax and grammer, but nothing like traditional language. Overtime, the cries for predators or help will be ignored by animals if they are called too often when nothing is there. Shows that they don"t just react to sound, but remember which monkey made the sound and what happened afterwards. Learning and knowledge of things we can"t consciously bring to mind. John the person who stood you up last night . When we say sentences we leave a lot unsaid. Cyc: program that tries to put common sense knowledge into database. Looks to find out how meaning is stored. Branch of philo that studies how we should think, what is rational. They use logical formalism to try and understand syntax and semantics.

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