Sentence Generation by Pattern Matching.
Résumé
This paper tries to account for verbal fluency, that is, the speed with which people compute syntactic structures. As we all know, people produce speech fluently without making too many mistakes. Given the known time constraints this is a remarkable performance. How is this possible? Verbal fluency, we believe, can be accounted for by the following two facts: people essentially use pattern matching and mapping rules as strategy and knowledge source. Rather than being confined to local strategies (strict incremental processing on a concept-to-concept basis) and formal grammars, they operate on larger chunks (global strategy) by using mapping rules. This is more economical, without being necessearily more error prone. Second, proficient speakers have learnt to recognise potential linguistic struc- tures on the basis of the formal characteristics of the conceptual structures, that is, proficient speakers are able to make good guesses concerning the syntactic structures that best express the conceptual input.
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