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P A Luelsdorff

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PubMed1994

Priority as frequency.

The centerpiece of determinacy grammar (DG) is determinacy form (DF). According to DF, a binder (z) binds an argument (x) to a predicate (y) with certain amounts of accuracy (I) and completeness (C), where I and C are defined in terms of frequencies (N): I = N(xy)/N(x) and C = N(xy)/N(y). DF is written: x,z-->y, I = m and C = n, where the values of I and C fall between 0.00 and 1.00. In this paper it is argued that priority = frequency. By this we mean that the spatial relations 'before--after' and the temporal relations 'earlier--later' are best understood as the frequentative relations 'less frequent--more frequent'. The Aristotelian interpretations of 'priority' are reexamined in this frequentative light, and it is concluded that relations of space and time are available to DG as relations of frequency. The leads to the question of frequency in DG, consisting of (1) a data matrix (DM) and (2) a determinacy analysis (DA) whose movements orchestrate DF. A typology of DM movements is given, and it is shown that 'earlier' and 'later' movements involve lower and higher frequencies, respectively. Moreover, it is found that DF qua movement suggests the existence of several movement-related frequency types.

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PubMed1994

Determinacy experience.

In this article we concisely describe our theoretical framework, determinacy grammar (DG), including accounts of the determinacy data matrix (DM) and determinancy analysis (DA), together with the associated notions of determinacy accuracy (I) and determinacy completeness (C). The topic of the article is determinacy experience (DE), which we bifurcate into (1) the determinacy of experience [D(E)] and (2) the experience of determinacy [E(D)]. Crucially, the relations involved are held to be frequentative rather than either temporal or spatial. Moreover, there is a need for a priori knowledge in the DM, namely, knowledge of determinacy form (DF), in particular, form which is frequentative rather than temporal or spatial. Finally, questions of knowledge acquisition, attrition (whether in normalcy or pathology), and variation are discussed. We conclude with a conspectus of the contents and some suggestions for further research.

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PubMed1992

Transitional determinacies.

In classic generative grammar a distinction is drawn between linguistic 'competence' and linguistic 'performance', the former referring to linguistic knowledge, the latter to how linguistic knowledge is used. However, this controversial differentiation obscures the additional dichotomy between linguistic knowledge for production and linguistic knowledge for recognition. In this article it is shown that production and recognition differ, that recognition is not simply the inverse of production, and that the derivation of production from recognition and recognition from production require a small set of generalizable 'transitional determinacies'. Secondly, it is shown that transitional determinacies explain the difference between 'overt' and 'covert' recognition recently observed in prosopagnosics, patients unable to recognize familiar faces. Prosopagnosics and normals are found to differ in their transitional determinacies, such that prosopagnosics require more binders (precisors) for covert recognition than normals. In general, it is concluded that transitional determinacies are as necessary to the theory of grammar as determinacies themselves.

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