Robots - the new linguistic informants?
Cowley, Stephen
(2008)
Robots - the new linguistic informants?
Connection Science (4).
pp. 359-369.
ISSN 0954-0091
Many have compared real robots with stars like HAL9000 and R2D2. Engineers and others who design such machines like to be reminded of movie heroes. As a result, while science fiction affects robotics, cognitive science also comes under the influence of the world of films. Below, this view is supplemented by taking the perspective of a person watcher. What is learned from observing real robots? What does this imply for both folk views of language and those of trained linguists?
| Item Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords | symbol grounding; human-robot interaction; human-robot language; distributed cognition; language acquisition; distributed language |
| Date Deposited | 29 May 2025 09:04 |
| Last Modified | 29 May 2025 09:04 |