On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 12:47 AM Boris Kazachenko <cogno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> Do you mean two similar input-inputs that are not in the same input?
>
I'd prefer to phrase it in terms of Howarth's data for natural language.
I mean what Howarth calls "blends".
Howarth contrasts "blends" with what he calls "overlaps".
An example of what Howarth calls an "overlap" is.
e.g: "Those learners usually _pay_ more _efforts_ in adopting a new
language..."
*pay effort
PAY attention/a call
MAKE a call/an effort
Trying to express that "overlap" as a network (if my ascii art survives
posting):
attention
/
pay
/ \
(?) a call
\ /
make
\
an effort
They "overlap". The networks of usage are connected over the "overlapping"
sequence/prediction of "a call". This is my definition of shared
connectivity. The speaker appears to have synthesized a(n ad-hoc?) category
on the basis of an observed shared sequence/prediction, and generalized
usage with it.
These "overlaps" are contrasted with what Howarth calls "blends":
"Blends" are groupings which don't share observed network "overlaps", but
which share similar "meaning".
e.g: '*appropriate _policy_ to be _taken_ with regard to inspections'
TAKE steps
ADOPT a policy
"take" and "adopt" are quite similar in meaning. You might say they may
have similar networks of internal connectivity. So they may be similar
according to your definition of shared connectivity. And, yes, here they
are observed to have been grouped, and interchanged (in a situation where a
native speaker would not have interchanged them. It's a disfluency,
revealing the underlying mechanisms. That's what makes all these examples
interesting.)
But Howarth finds that these "blends" happen less often than "overlaps".
It would seem to indicate that groupings based on shared internal
connectivity (blends) do occur. You're right. But they occur less
dominantly than groupings based on shared observed sequences or predictions
(overlaps.)
Or that this is at least the case for natural language.
For natural language, according to Howarth's evidence, it seems to be
shared connectivity of the type I am talking about, observed shared
sequence, which dominates. Or at the very least, also occurs.
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