A connectionist view of language production

In this contribution we will present a localist connectionist model of language production. Language production is clearly a cognitive process, and a system which models this process has to be evaluated using the standard criteria for model evaluation applied in natural science. These criteria are descriptive adequacy, explanatory adequacy, simplicity, falsifiability, and generality (Thagard 1988; Jacobs Grainger 1994). We will address these criteria here in order to demonstrate that (a) localist connectionist models are well suited for modeling many aspects of language production and (b) a large set of empirical data can be covered in a framework with only a few design principles.

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