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Structure and Content in Language Production: A Theory of Frame Constraints in Phonological Speech Errors
Author(s) -
Dell Gary S.,
Juliano Cornell,
Govindjee Anita
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.498
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1551-6709
pISSN - 0364-0213
DOI - 10.1207/s15516709cog1702_1
Subject(s) - connectionism , computer science , frame (networking) , lexicon , mental lexicon , linguistics , speech production , production (economics) , phonological rule , language production , natural language processing , speech error , content (measure theory) , phonology , artificial intelligence , speech recognition , psychology , cognition , mathematics , artificial neural network , telecommunications , mathematical analysis , philosophy , neuroscience , economics , macroeconomics
Theories of language production propose that utterances are constructed by a mechanism that separates linguistic content from linguistic structure, Linguistic content is retrieved from the mental lexicon, and is then inserted into slots in linguistic structures or frames. Support for this kind of model at the phonological level comes from patterns of phonological speech errors. W present an alternative account of these patterns using a connectionist or parallel distributed proceesing (PDP) model that learns to produce sequences of phonological features. The model's errors exhibit some of the properties of human speech errors, specifically, properties that have been attributed to the action of phonological rules, frames, or other structural generalizations.