Harmony in Linguistic Cognition

Autor/in	Smolensky, Paul
Titel	Harmony in Linguistic Cognition
Quelle	In: Cognitive Science, 30 (2006) 5, S.779-801 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0364-0213
DOI	10.1207/s15516709cog0000_78
Schlagwörter	Cognitive Processes; Computation; Research Projects; Theories; Classification + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Forschungsvorhaben; Theory; Theorie; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem
Abstract	In this article, I survey the integrated connectionist/symbolic (ICS) cognitive architecture in which higher cognition must be formally characterized on two levels of description. At the microlevel, parallel distributed processing (PDP) characterizes mental processing; this PDP system has special organization in virtue of which it can be characterized at the macrolevel as a kind of symbolic computational system. The symbolic system inherits certain properties from its PDP substrate; the symbolic functions computed constitute optimization of a well-formedness measure called Harmony. The most important outgrowth of the ICS research program is optimality theory (Prince & Smolensky, 1993/2004), an optimization-based grammatical theory that provides a formal theory of cross-linguistic typology. Linguistically, Harmony maximization corresponds to minimization of markedness or structural ill-formedness. Cognitive explanation in ICS requires the collaboration of symbolic and connectionist principles. ICS is developed in detail in Smolensky and Legendre (2006a); this article is a precis of and guide to those volumes. (Author).
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