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The hypothetical order assumed in 8.1.1 is determined by the order in which
the raw nonlanguage data are being recognized and interpreted by the agent.
For example, the amalgamation might begin simultaneously with the A
|
N
(
little
find
) concatenation in 2.
Then these two separate content parts might each be extended simultaneously
with the A
|
dog
) concatenation in 1 and the N
\
V(
bone
\
find
)
concatenation in 4, respectively. In 3, it is the first (lower) node of the A
−
A(
little
−
black
) concatenation in 3 and the A
|
V(
quickly
|
N
signature derived in 1 which is being extended. In 4 it is the second (upper)
node of the N
|
V signature derived in 2 which is used for the extension. Finally,
the top nodes of the two separate content parts 3 and 4 are concatenated in 5
with the N
\
find
) relation.
Any individual node, either isolated or already connected to other nodes, can
be a local growth point in that it may be used as the first or second element
of an elementary signature. For example, whether the nodes
dog
and
find
in
concatenation 5 of 8.1.1 are already connected to other nodes (as shown in
3 and 4) or not does not matter as far as their local, binary concatenation is
concerned. The main distinction in local concatenations is between obligatory
connections, i.e., subject
/
V(
dog
/
/
verb and object
\
verb, and optional connections, i.e.,
conjunct
modified (where the number and nature of
the obligatory arguments are determined by the core value of the verb).
The amalgamation of nonlanguage content is based on the following steps:
−
conjunct and modifier
|
8.1.2 S
TEPS OF AN ELEMENTARY AMALGAMATION
1. Raw data provided by the agent's visual, auditory, and other perception
components are classified by concept types provided by the agent's mem-
ory, based on the principle of best match (cf. NLC'06, Sect. 4.4, and
L&I'05) - as in a Rorschach test.
2. The instantiated concept tokens are embedded into N, V, or A proplet shells
(6.6.1, 6.6.6).
3. Selected pairs of nodes resulting from 2 are connected such that they form
one of the 16 elementary signatures
1
defined in 7.6.4 and 7.6.5.
The input pairs are unordered such that {N, V} and {V, N}, for example, are
equivalent. Thus, there are altogether six possible input pairs, namely {N, V},
{N, A}, {V, A}, {N, N}, {V, V}, and {A, A}. The following table shows which
of the resulting pair of nodes is matched by which elementary signature(s):
1
Given the close relation between language and thought, it is assumed that the “parts of speech” and the
elementary signatures of nonlanguage cognition are the same as those of the agent's native language.
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