Geometric representations for minimalist grammars

DOI10.1007/S10849-012-9164-2zbMATH Open1305.91210arXiv1101.5076OpenAlexW3106047023MaRDI QIDQ2255202FDOQ2255202

Authors: Peter beim Graben, Sabrina Gerth 

Publication date: 9 February 2015

Published in: Journal of Logic, Language and Information (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We reformulate minimalist grammars as partial functions on term algebras for strings and trees. Using filler/role bindings and tensor product representations, we construct homomorphisms for these data structures into geometric vector spaces. We prove that the structure-building functions as well as simple processors for minimalist languages can be realized by piecewise linear operators in representation space. We also propose harmony, i.e. the distance of an intermediate processing step from the final well-formed state in representation space, as a measure of processing complexity. Finally, we illustrate our findings by means of two particular arithmetic and fractal representations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.5076

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zbMATH Keywords

harmony theorytensor product representationsminimalist grammarsgeometric cognitionvector symbolic architectures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grammars and rewriting systems (68Q42) Linguistics (91F20)

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