Connectionist models of utterance production

Abstract

This paper has demonstrated, that linguistics phenomena as errors, especially slips of the tongue, can be successfully modelled with parallel connectionist models. Errors are of central interest for procedural linguistics, that branch of linguistics which aims at a description of language processes. Parallel models are well suited for this aim since their processual organization is exactly the organization found in real cognitive processes of utterance production. At present, only connectionist models can describe error production to a certain extent. Symbol processing models still have to invent suitable techniques. Since connectionist modelling requires computer simulation it is useful to provide special tools as the BiKonnex system.