{"pk":31307,"title":"A Phonologically Motivated Input Representation for the Modelling of Auditory Word Perception in Continuous Speech","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Representational choices are crucial to the success of connectionist modelling. Most previous models of auditory word perception in continuous speech have relied upon a traditional Chomsky-Halle style inventory of features; many have also postulated a localise phonemic level of representation mediating a featural and a lexical level. A different immediate representation of the speech input is proposed, motivated by current developments in phonological theory, namely Government Phonology. The proposed input representation consists of nine elements with physical correlates. A model of speech perception employing this input representation is described. Successive bundles of elements arrive across time at the input. Each is mapped, by means of recurrent connections, onto a window representing the current bundle and a context consisting of three such bundles either side of the current bundle. Simulations demonstrate the viability of the proposed input representation. A simulation of the compensation for coarticulation effect (Elman and McClelland. 1989) demonstrates an interpretation which does not involve top-down interaction between lexical and tower levels. The model described is envisaged as part of a wider model of language processing incorporating semantic and orthographic levels of representation, with no local lexical entries. ^","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8zs0g7wc","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Richard","middle_name":"","last_name":"Shillcock","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Edinburgh","department":""},{"first_name":"Geoffrey","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lindsey","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Edinburgh","department":""},{"first_name":"Joe","middle_name":"","last_name":"Levy","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Edinburgh","department":""},{"first_name":"Nick","middle_name":"","last_name":"Chater","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Edinburgh","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1992-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31307/galley/22376/download/"}]}