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TRACE THEORY [2 records]

Record 1 1987-06-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Diachronic Linguistics and Etymology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Linguistique diachronique et étymologie
DEF

Théorie avancée par N. Chomsky qui suppose que le composant sémantique opère sur une seule structure, à savoir la structure de surface augmentée par l'addition de traces qui marquent la position de groupes nominaux déplacés par le composant transformationnel.

Spanish

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Record 2 1981-04-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
OBS

A physiological theory of forgetting which states that the memory trace in the brain gradually fades away with time.

OBS

Note: Term defined in a specialized glossary of psychometrics.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique

Spanish

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