What does «generativo» mean in Spanish?
- The term is used to refer to that which has the virtue or function of engendering, generating, originating or producing.
Examples of use in Spanish: "el sistema reproductivo femenino y sus ciclos generativos".
"el diseño generativo promete un aumento sustancial en el rendimiento y la calidad del producto".
"el poder generativo de la mente".
- Denoting an approach to any field of linguistics that involves the application of a finite set of rules to linguistic input in order to produce each and every well-formed element of a language.
Examples of use in Spanish: "fonología generativa".
- (gramática generativa) A linguistic theory that attempts to describe the tacit knowledge that a native speaker has of a language by establishing a set of explicit and formalized rules that specify or generate all possible grammatical sentences of a language, while excluding all unacceptable sentences. This theory was developed by N. Chomsky, between 1957 and 1964, as a critique of the model of descriptive structural linguistics.
- (léxico generativo) Semantic theory that focuses on the distributed nature of natural language composition.
- (métricas generativas) Theories of verse structure based on generative linguistic ideas
- (principio generativo) The idea in foreign language teaching that human beings have the capacity to generate an infinite number of sentences from a finite grammatical competence.
- (semántica generativa) An approach developed from transformational generative grammar that assumes that deep structures are the only input for semantic interpretation.
- (diseño generativo) Iterative design process involving a program that generates a certain number of outputs that meet certain constraints, and a designer who refines the feasible region by changing the minimum and maximum values of an interval in which a program variable meets the set of constraints, in order to reduce or increase the number of outputs to choose from.
- (actor generativo) Person who instigates social change.
- (arte generativo) Art that has been created using an autonomous system that is often, but not necessarily, implemented using a computer.
- (música generativa) Music that is always different and changing, and that is created by a system.
- (antropología generativa) A field of study based on the theory that the history of human culture is a genetic or "generative" development derived from the development of language.
- (modelo generativo) Model for randomly generating observable data in probability and statistics.
- (programación generativa) A type of computer programming in which some mechanism generates a computer program that allows human programmers to write code at a higher level of abstraction.
- (ciencia generativa) Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary science that explores the natural world and its complex behaviors as a generative process.
- (sistema generativo) A system that uses a few basic rules to produce patterns that can be extremely varied and unpredictable.