Information theory

Grammatical Man

Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language, and Life is a 1982 book written by the Evening Standard's Washington correspondent, Jeremy Campbell. The book touches on topics of probability, Information Theory, cybernetics, genetics and linguistics. The book frames and examines existence, from the Big Bang to DNA to human communication to artificial intelligence, in terms of information processes. The text consists of a foreword, twenty-one chapters, and an afterword. It is divided into four parts: Establishing the Theory of Information; Nature as an Information Process; Coding Language, Coding Life; How the Brain Puts It All Together. (Wikipedia).

Grammatical Man
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Grammar: Who's or Whose?

In this video, you’ll learn more about when to use "whose" and "who's" correctly in American English. Visit https://www.gcflearnfree.org/grammar/whos-or-whose/1/ for our text-based lesson. We hope you enjoy!

From playlist Grammar

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What is Language? (Part 1)

This is the first part of a series of videos on the nature of language. The aim of the series is to convey research findings to the general public. The next episodes will be made available soon. Illustrated by Lydia Alexkartadjaja (https://www.instagram.com/lydialexdesign/)

From playlist What is Language?

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Gender in the Italian Language

The concept of gender in language is difficult to grasp for English-speakers, because it just doesn't exist in English. But in other languages, some objects are masculine and some are feminine! It may sound kind of sexist, but that's Italian works, so we have to understand this to speak th

From playlist Italian

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The Origin of Language

#i3G This Video is about the origins of language. It reviews two hypotheses among the several available theories. #homo sapiens #homo erectus #Neanderthals #Noam Chomsky #Ian Tattersall #Robert Berwick #Daniel Everette

From playlist What is Language?

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Jean BÉNABOU - Very, almost, and so on, ...

Very, almost, and so on, ... (when fragments of the language find their way into Topos Theory)

From playlist Topos à l'IHES

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Verb 1

A visual depiction of a verb. Scripts developed by the Princeton Aphasia Project, filmed by Xiaojuan Ma starring Ge Wang.

From playlist Verbs

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How PEOPLE not PERSONS Became the Plural of PERSON (most of the time): A History Lesson.

What's the difference between PERSONS and PEOPLE? In this video not only will you learn when to use PEOPLE and PERSONS but also we'll look at the fascinating history of these two words. With graphs and examples and even a touch of Anglo-Saxon. I hope you enjoy it. Intermediate and advan

From playlist Tales from the English language

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Grammar: Your or You're?

In this video, you’ll learn more about when to use "your" and "you're" correctly in American English. Visit https://www.gcflearnfree.org/grammar/your-or-youre/1/ for our text-based lesson. We hope you enjoy!

From playlist Grammar

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Italian Adjectives: Grammar and Vocabulary

Adjectives are words that describe nouns, so you will need these if you want to say it's a nice day, or so many other things! We will go through the grammar associated with adjectives, and then a bunch of vocabulary, including words to describe appearance and personality. Script by Patriz

From playlist Italian

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PSY103 - Linguistic Encoding

How do we convert the conceptual representation into a linguistic structure? What are the internal levels of "linguistic encoding".This short E-lecture provides the main answers to these questions.

From playlist VLC301 - Psycholinguistics

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11. Deconstruction II

Introduction to Theory of Literature (ENGL 300) In this second lecture on deconstruction, Professor Paul Fry concludes his consideration of Derrida and begins to explore the work of Paul de Man. Derrida's affinity for and departure from Levi-Strauss's distinction between nature and cult

From playlist Introduction to Theory of Literature with Paul H. Fry

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[Syntax] Introduction and Glossing

We introduce what syntax is, talk about glossing, as well as do a couple examples in languages other than English. We also cover some basic word order, adjective order, and really basic morphology. LIKE AND SHARE THE VIDEO IF IT HELPED! Visit our website: http://bit.ly/1zBPlvm Subscribe

From playlist Syntax

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R & Python - Parsing Part 1 (2022)

Lecturer: Dr. Erin M. Buchanan Spring 2022 https://www.patreon.com/statisticsofdoom This video is part of my Natural Language Processing course. This video covers parsing, which is creating sentence structure for understanding meaning. You will learn both traditional constituency parsing

From playlist Natural Language Processing

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29C3: Sprache, Ungleichheit und Unfreiheit (DE)

Speaker: Anatol Stefanovitsch Forderungen nach einer gerechten Sprache (also einer Sprache frei von Rassismus, Sexismus und anderen menschenfeindlichen Ideologien) stoßen häufig auf Unverständnis und Ablehnung. Unverständnis, weil statt der sozialen Wirklichkeit die Sprache kritisiert wir

From playlist 29C3: Not my department

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Introduction and Core Concepts | Morphology Linguistics

An introduction to #morphology in #linguistics and its core concepts. We cover words, affixes, inflections, derivations, data sets, allomorphy, and more! 0:00 Introduction 1:40 Morphemes 4:25 Defining Orthographic and Phonological Words 6:03 Lexemes and Grammatical Words 7:25 Word Categor

From playlist Morphology - Linguistics

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TYP103 - The Classification of Languages

This E-Lecture discusses and exemplifies the main parameters of language classification: structural parameters, such as analytic vs. synthetic, word order properties, i.e. the ordering of the main functional elements subject, verb and object, as well as suprasegmental phonological criteria

From playlist VLC300 - Applied Linguistics

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TYP105 - Structural Typology

This E-Lecture discusses the morphological or structural parameter of language classification. It carefully introduces the analytic-synthetic continuum, illustrates the differences between agglutinating and fusional, and includes some aspects of polysynthesis. All examples are supported wi

From playlist VLC300 - Applied Linguistics

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Ruby on Ales 2015 - Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana by Hsing-Hui Hsu

How do we make sense of a regular sentence, especially when they take us down the "garden path"? For example, when we see a sentence that starts with "The old man," most of us would expect the next word to be a verb. So when we read, "The old man the boat," we have to backtrack to re-evalu

From playlist Ruby on Ales 2015

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Jump Start Brazilian Portuguese -- Lesson 8 -- Gender, Number, and Agreement

In Lesson 8 of my Professor Jason Jump Start Brazilian Portuguese series I talk about gender and number and the issue of agreement, a grammatical feature of Brazilian Portuguese that requires articles and adjectives to agree in number and gender with nouns. We'll also look at verbal agreem

From playlist Brazilian Portuguese with Professor Jason: Beginner Level

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Adverbs in Italian

We are getting so good at grammar! What's next? Well we know that adjectives describe nouns, so what can describe a verb? That's an adverb, and there are lots of them in Italian. Let's check them out now! Script by Patrizia Farina, Professor of Italian at Western Connecticut State Univers

From playlist Italian

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Jacob Bernoulli | Ars Conjectandi | Emergence | Redundancy (information theory) | Claude Shannon | Entropy | History of probability | Gödel's incompleteness theorems | Law of large numbers | Probability | John von Neumann