Cognitive Science articles from October 1999

Cognitive Science archives from October 1999

Preface.(Brief Article)
October 1, 1999... This Special Issue appraises the progress made so far and the prospects for future development of connectionist models of natural language processing. This project is timely--the decade since the publication of David Rumelhart and Jay...

Connectionist Natural Language Processing: The State of the Art.(Brief Article)
October 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION Connectionist modeling of language processing has been highly controversial. Some have argued that language processing, from phonology to semantics, can be understood in connectionist terms; others have argued teat no...

Ambiguity, Competition, and Blending in Spoken Word Recognition.(Brief Article)
October 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION Several recent models of lexical processing assume that cognitive processing can be treated as dynamic settling activity, where activations of nodes in a network represent relevant perceptual and lexical information...

A Connectionist Model of English Past Tense and Plural Morphology.(Brief Article)
October 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION The acquisition of past tense in English has been long studied as a general touchstone for the development of morphology and productive linguistic rules in children. The general pattern of past tense formation for English...

Dynamical Models of Sentence Processing.(Brief Article)
October 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION The Dynamics of Sentence Processing Linguistic input is typically consistent with multiple syntactic possibilities as it unfolds over time. Because syntax strongly constrains interpretation, the processing system must...

Connectionist Models of Language Production: Lexical Access and Grammatical Encoding.(Brief Article)
October 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION Psycholinguistic research into language production--the process of translating thoughts into speech--has long been associated with connectionist models. Spreading activation models of lexical access in production represent...

A Connectionist Approach to Word Reading and Acquired Dyslexia: Extension to Sequential Processing.(Brief Article)
October 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION Many researchers assume that the most appropriate way to express the systematic aspects of language is in terms of a set of rules. For instance, there is a systematic relationship between the written and spoken forms of...

A Probabilistic Constraints Approach to Language Acquisition and Processing.(Brief Article)
October 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION Issues about acquisition have played a central role in the generative approach to language. That language involves innate, domain-specific types of knowledge is taken as one of the major findings to have emerged from the....

Grammar-based Connectionist Approaches to Language.(Brief Article)
October 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION This article is addressed to basic methodological issues arising in connectionist research on language. I will attempt to briefly sketch a lengthy argument begun in Smolensky, Legendre, and Miyata (1992) and presented in...

Connectionist Sentence Processing in Perspective.(Brief Article)
October 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION As many papers in this special issue attest, an active and constructive dialogue about processing at the level of spoken and written words, and about the acquisition of related systems such as phonology, morphology and the...