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Examining Bilingual Language Control Using the Stroop Task
Published on: February 26, 2020
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1Institut de Physique Théorique Philippe Meyer, École Normale Supérieure, PSL University, Sorbonne Universités, CNRS, 75005 Paris, France.
Abstract:
Many complex generative systems use languages to create structured objects. We consider a model of random languages, defined by weighted context-free grammars. As the distribution of grammar weights broadens, a transition is found from a random phase, in which sentences are indistinguishable from noise, to an organized phase in which nontrivial information is carried. This marks the emergence of deep structure in the language, and can be understood by a competition between energy and entropy.
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