{ "paper_id": "C69-1200", "header": { "generated_with": "S2ORC 1.0.0", "date_generated": "2023-01-19T12:31:55.496514Z" }, "title": "", "authors": [ { "first": "", "middle": [], "last": "Fa", "suffix": "", "affiliation": { "laboratory": "FOR ~]ANTI TATI VE LINOUI STI C5 Stockholm dO", "institution": "", "location": { "postCode": "SWEDF2V" } }, "email": "" } ], "year": "", "venue": null, "identifiers": {}, "abstract": "", "pdf_parse": { "paper_id": "C69-1200", "_pdf_hash": "", "abstract": [], "body_text": [ { "text": "The model that we arrive at is a particularly simple formulation of a discovery procedure for words. This formulation is part of n~ longer concern with the aetiology of ideas about linguistic units:", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "why does a linguist feel a phrase is a phrase and a word is a word?", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "The Word as a Distributional Unit", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "The status of the word as a linguistic unit is best sunmmrized by Greenberg: (1957) The word as a unit occupies a paradoxical position in contemporary linguistic science. Such a unit, roughly coinciding in usage with its employment in everyday language and in the discourses of sciences other than linguistics~ occurs almost universally in practice of descriptive linguists as the dividing line between the two levels of morphological (intra-word) and syntactic (supra-werd) constructions.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 77, "end": 83, "text": "(1957)", "ref_id": null } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "Yet no generally accepted", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "", "sec_num": null } ], "back_matter": [], "bib_entries": {}, "ref_entries": { "FIGREF0": { "num": null, "type_str": "figure", "text": "I want to distinguish between the behavior of language and the behavior of linguists in analysing linguistic data. The paper concerns distributional approximations to the word as a sequence of sub-word units. I will argue on the basis of what a hypothetical linguist might do with hypothetical linguistic data-in this case the frequencies of sequences of morphemes. The behavior of the hypothetical linguist is formalized into a quantitative model, which in turn is applied to real linguistic data: a primer, a lower school reader, and a well known tract on the philosophy of language.", "uris": null } } } }