PIPS: A Parallel Planning Model of Sentence Production

Autor/inn/en	Brehm, Laurel; Cho, Pyeong Whan; Smolensky, Paul; Goldrick, Matthew A.
Titel	PIPS: A Parallel Planning Model of Sentence Production
Quelle	In: Cognitive Science, 46 (2022) 2, (49 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1551-6709
DOI	10.1111/cogs.13079
Schlagwörter	Sentences; Sentence Structure; Grammar; Verbs; Form Classes (Languages); Error Patterns; Syntax; Models; Computation; Language Processing + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Grammatik; Analytischer Sprachbau; Fehlertyp; Analogiemodell; Sprachverarbeitung
Abstract	Subject-verb agreement errors are common in sentence production. Many studies have used experimental paradigms targeting the production of subject-verb agreement from a sentence preamble ("The key to the cabinets") and eliciting verb errors (… "were shiny"). Through reanalysis of previous data (50 experiments; 102,369 observations), we show that this paradigm also results in many errors in preamble repetition, particularly of local noun number ("The key to the cabinet"). We explore the mechanisms of both errors in parallelism in producing syntax (PIPS), a model in the Gradient Symbolic Computation framework. PIPS models sentence production using a continuous-state stochastic dynamical system that optimizes grammatical constraints (shaped by previous experience) over vector representations of symbolic structures. At intermediate stages in the computation, grammatical constraints allow multiple competing parses to be partially activated, resulting in stable but transient conjunctive blend states. In the context of the preamble completion task, memory constraints reduce the strength of the target structure, allowing for co-activation of non-target parses where the local noun controls the verb (notional agreement and locally agreeing relative clauses) and non-target parses that include structural constituents with contrasting number specifications (e.g., plural instead of singular local noun). Simulations of the preamble completion task reveal that these partially activated non-target parses, as well the need to balance accurate encoding of lexical and syntactic aspects of the prompt, result in errors. In other words: Because sentence processing is embedded in a processor with finite memory and prior experience with production, interference from non-target production plans causes errors. (As Provided).
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