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The dynamics of language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1999

Peter W. Culicover  and
Andrzej Nowak
Peter W. Culicover
Affiliation:
Center for Cognitive Science and Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210-1102 [email protected] www.cog.ohio-state.edu./cfaculty/culicove.html
Andrzej Nowak
Affiliation:
Center for Complex Systems and Department of Psychology, University of Warsaw, 00-183 Warsaw [email protected] andante.iss.uw.edu.pl/iss/issg5e.html
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Abstract

To deal with syntactic structure, one needs to go beyond a simple model based on associative structures, and to adopt a dynamical systems perspective, where each phrase and sentence of a language is represented as a trajectory in a syntactic phase space. Neural assemblies could possibly be used to produce dynamics that in principle could handle syntax along these lines.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , April 1999 , pp. 284 - 285
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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