Integrating and extending the distributed approach in cognitive science

Dale, Rick

doi:10.1075/is.13.1.08dal

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“…As Tomasello (2003) noted, this type of research demonstrates that perhaps the best way to generate grammatical utterances is to use examples of previously heard communications. This is also similar to the viewpoint of the distributed approach to language (e.g., Dale, 2012), which proposes that language is culturally constructed.…”

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“…However, if this is to be a serious model of language, it should also be able to also take an initially unstructured language and create structure through the communication of agents within an environment. This assertion is based on the proposals of Tomasello (2003) and the distributed approach to language (Dale, 2012), both of which suggest that language is constructed by social/cultural processes. We next describe how this is possible within the current framework.…”

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“…Thus, the construction of linguistic structure was entirely social: Agents were likely to generate utterances that were similar to what other members of the community had previously generated, given the structure of the current environment. This was an attempt to formalize aspects of the claims made by usage-based theories (Tomasello, 2003) and the distributed approach to language (Dale, 2012) by basing the communication method entirely on the social environment.…”

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Generating structure from experience: A retrieval-based model of language processing.

Johns¹,

Jones²

2015

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne

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Standard theories of language generally assume that some abstraction of linguistic input is necessary to create higher level representations of linguistic structures (e.g., a grammar). However, the importance of individual experiences with language has recently been emphasized by both usage-based theories (Tomasello, 2003) and grounded and situated theories (e.g., Zwaan & Madden, 2005). Following the usage-based approach, we present a formal exemplar model that stores instances of sentences across a natural language corpus, applying recent advances from models of semantic memory. In this model, an exemplar memory is used to generate expectations about the future structure of sentences, using a mechanism for prediction in language processing (Altmann & Mirković, 2009). The model successfully captures a broad range of behavioral effects-reduced relative clause processing (Reali & Christiansen, 2007), the role of contextual constraint (Rayner & Well, 1996), and event knowledge activation (Ferretti, Kutas, & McRae, 2007), among others. We further demonstrate how perceptual knowledge could be integrated into this exemplar-based framework, with the goal of grounding language processing in perception. Finally, we illustrate how an exemplar memory system could have been used in the cultural evolution of language. The model provides evidence that an impressive amount of language processing may be bottom-up in nature, built on the storage and retrieval of individual linguistic experiences.

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Generating structure from experience: A retrieval-based model of language processing.

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Jones²

2015

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne

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“…Donald 2012) and a final discussion paper by Dale (2012). In particular Dale combines the concepts and hypothesis presented by the individual authors to extend the distributed role of language in cognitive science.…”

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Progress on evolution of communication and interaction studies

Dautenhahn¹,

Cangelosi²

2013

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This editorial provides an overview of the latest research progress in the fields of evolution of communication and interaction studies by analysing the articles published in the three issues appeared in 2012. This overview allows us to identify the new emerging directions of investigation, as well as evaluating advances of current methodological and theoretical approaches with respect to the previous year (Dautenhahn & Cangelosi 2012). [opening paragraph

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The evolution of language as controlled collectivity

Rączaszek-Leonardi

Cowley

2012

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Integrating and extending the distributed approach in cognitive science

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Generating structure from experience: A retrieval-based model of language processing.

Generating structure from experience: A retrieval-based model of language processing.

Progress on evolution of communication and interaction studies

The evolution of language as controlled collectivity

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