Inflection as a Model System for the Psychology of Language

屈折变化作为语言心理学的模型系统

• 批准号: 9109766
• 负责人: Steven Pinker
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-09-15 至 1995-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9109766&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Inflection; Model; System; Psychology; Language

ABSTRACT This project studies one subsystem of human language, inflection (the ability to derive walked from walk or wives from wife). The phenomenon is to be studied in intensive detail from a variety of disciplines, aiming at a unified theory and database of how the system works computationally, how it is learned, how it varies represented in the brain. A key hypothesis is that regular inflection (walk-walks) is computed by a very general mental rule ("add -ed") whereas irregular inflection (come-came) involves memorization of two separate words in an associative memory, allowing limited generalization only to similar-sounding words. This hypothesis, which bears on current study of connectionist and symbol-processing models of cognition, predicts that regular and irregular inflection should dissociate in a variety of ways. The project include tests of how speakers of English and other languages apply inflectional patterns to existing and new words, experiments where subjects produce and recognize inflected forms in real time, crosslinguistic surveys of universals and variation in inflectional systems, and model construction.

摘要 本课题研究人类语言的一个子系统--屈折变化 (the从行走中获得行走或从妻子中获得妻子的能力）。 的 这一现象是要深入研究的细节，从各种各样的 学科，旨在统一的理论和数据库如何 系统是通过计算工作的，它是如何学习的，它是如何变化的， 在大脑中表现出来。 一个关键的假设是， 屈折变化（walk-walks）是由一个非常普遍的心理规则计算出来的 （“add -艾德”）而不规则的屈折变化（come-came）涉及 在联想记忆器中记忆两个独立的单词， 只允许有限的概括到发音相似的词。 这一假设与当前的联结主义研究有关， 和认知的符号处理模型，预测， 和不规则的屈折变化应该以多种方式分离。 该项目包括测试如何讲英语和其他 语言将屈折模式应用于现有的和新的单词， 让受试者产生并识别屈折形式的实验 在真实的时间里，对共性和变异的跨语言调查 在屈折系统和模型构建中。