Connectionist natural language processing research has been in the literature for less than
a decade and yet it is already claimed that it has established novel styles of representation …

Language is inherently cognitive and distinctly human. Separating the object of language
from the human mind that processes and creates language fails to capture the full language …

The emphasis in the connectionist sentence-processing literature on distributed
representation and emergence of grammar from such systems can easily obscure the often …

Cognitive linguists hypothesize that language is the product of general cognitive abilities.
Semantic and functional motivations are sought for grammatical patterns, sentence meaning …

In everyday conversation, turns often follow each other immediately or overlap in time. It has
been proposed that speakers achieve this tight temporal coordination between their turns by …

It is argued that the principles needed to explain linguistic behavior are domain-general and
based on the impact that specific experiences have on the mental organization and …

I argue that cue integration, a psychophysiological mechanism from vision and multisensory
perception, offers a computational linking hypothesis between psycholinguistic theory and …

To flexibly convey meaning, the human language faculty iteratively combines smaller units
such as words into larger structures such as phrases based on grammatical principles …

It is by now widely acknowledged by cognitively-oriented connectionists that human thought
and language production display both compositionality and systematicity. In large part …

Theories of language production have long been expressed as connectionist models. We
outline the issues and challenges that must be addressed by connectionist models of lexical …