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A connectionist view of language production

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Representations and Processes in Language Production

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In this contribution we will present a localist connectionist model of language production. Language production is clearly a cognitive process, and a system which models this process has to be evaluated using the standard criteria for model evaluation applied in natural science. These criteria are descriptive adequacy, explanatory adequacy, simplicity, falsifiability, and generality (Thagard 1988; Jacobs Grainger 1994). We will address these criteria here in order to demonstrate that (a) localist connectionist models are well suited for modeling many aspects of language production and (b) a large set of empirical data can be covered in a framework with only a few design principles.

Work on this project has been funded by the Deutsche Forchungsgemeinschaft within the framework of the SFB 360 „Situierte Künstliche Kommunikatoren“ Project B2 „Computersimulation von Prozessen der Objektbenennung“.

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  1. Centre for Computational Linguistics, University of Heidelberg, Karlstr. 2, D-69117, Heidelberg, Germany

    Ralf Klabunde

  2. Institut für Deutsch als Fremdprachenphilologie, University of Heidelberg, Plöck 55, D-69117, Heidelberg, Germany

    Christiane von Stutterheim

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Eikmeyer, HJ., Schade, U., Kupietz, M., Laubenstein, U. (1999). A connectionist view of language production. In: Klabunde, R., von Stutterheim, C. (eds) Representations and Processes in Language Production. Studien zur Kognitionswissenschaft. Deutscher Universitätsverlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-99290-1_8

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