On Phonological Representations as Equilibra among Phonological Computational Device

总体研究方案是基于博弈论重构音韵学一般理论框架。在该框架内，假设一组语音小工具可以在这些小工具之间产生最佳平衡。目前的研究阐明了自然语言中的音系过程是发音和听觉计算设备之间的平衡这一事实，并继续构建了真正可验证的音系学一般理论。 “均衡”的概念来自社会科学领域内的纳什均衡概念。本研究试图实现一种语言模型，其中假定语音计算部件之间的关系是相对的，以便达到最佳语音表示，该表示在语音计算中假设的收益矩阵中得到最高评价。目前的框架与最优理论的宗旨有很大不同，因为语法系统的输出是有限的：最优理论假设语音输出本质上是无限的，并且最优表示是通过按排序的普遍约束对输出进行评估的过程来选择的。如果我们将注意力集中在大脑/心智的实时处理上，我们的模型就语言计算的心理现实而言是有很好动机的。目前的做法是我们可以取消Jackendoff工作中提出的三方并行架构中的对应规则装置。在我们的模型中，语音、句法和概念模块之间的对应关系是通过支付矩阵中的计算得出的。第二个推论是语义和语境实用计算的理论基础被统一到我们博弈论方法的一般原则中。重点是确定能动要素单位的水平。在我们的方法中，一个人可以是某一框架中的主体元素，而在语音描述中，我们假设一个人内化多个计算小工具或子主体。相反，一群人也可以是一个整体的代理人。这三个层次的理论同质性可能有助于我们理解理论语言学和交际理论的统一。较少的

The overall research scheme has been to reconstruct the framework of the general theory of phonology based on Game Theory. Within the framework, a set of phonological gadget are postulated to produce an optimal equilibrium among those gadgets. The present research elucidated the fact that the phonological processes in natural languages are equilibria among those articulatory and auditory computational device, and it goes on to construct a general theory of phonology that is truly verifiable. The notion of "equilibrium" comes from the notion of Nash Equilibrium within the realm of social sciences.The present research tried to realize a linguistic model in which the relationships among phonological computational gadgets are assumed to be relative so as to arrive at an optimal phonological representation that is evaluated highest in the payoff matrix assumed in the phonological computation assumed there. The present framework crucially differs from the tenet of Optimality Theory in that t … More he outputs of the grammatical system are finite : Optimality Theory assumes that the phonological outputs are essentially infinite and that the optimal representation is selected by the procedure of the evaluation of the outputs by the ranked universal constraints.If we focus our attention on the real-time processing in the brain / mind, our model is well-motivated with respect to the psychological reality of the linguistic computation.A significant corollary of the present approach is that we may do away with the devices of correspondence rules in the Tripartite Parallel Architecture proposed in Jackendoff's work. In our model the correspondence among phonological, syntactic and conceptual modules is worked out by the calculation done in the payoff matrices.The second corollary is that the theoretical foundation of the semantics and contextual-pragmatic computation are unified into the general tenet of our game-theoretic approach. The point has been the identification of the level of the unit of agentive elements. In our approach, a person can be a agentive element in a certain framework, while in the phonological description we assume that one person internalizes more than one computational gadget, or sub-agents. Conversely, a group of persons can also be an agent as a whole. The theoretical homogeneity of the three level may contribute to our understand of the unification of the theoretical linguistics and the theory of communication. Less