Paul Smolensky

Biographic Data

ID149378
NAMEPaul Smolensky
GIVEN NAMESPaul
FAMILY NAMESmolensky
SIGNATURESMOLENSKY P
AFFILIATIONSJohns Hopkins University
ORCID0000-0003-2420-182X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS47
AUTHOR COUNT17
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX2

  • Learning a gradient grammar of French liaison

    Open AccessPaul Smolensky, Eric Rosen et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Annual…2020

    In certain French words, an orthgraphically-final consonant is unpronounced except, in certain environments, when it precedes a vowel. This phenomenon, liaison, shows significant interactions with several other patterns in French (including h-aspiré, schwa deletion, and the presence of other morphemes in the liaison context). We present a learning algorithm that acquires a grammar that accounts for these patterns and their interactions. The learn…

  • Incremental parsing in a continuous dynamical system: Sentence processing in Gradient Symbolic Computation

    Pyeong Whan Cho, Matthew Goldrick et al.ARTICLELinguistics Vanguard2017

    Any incremental parser must solve two computational problems: (1) maintaining all interpretations consistent with the words that have been processed so far and (2) excluding all globally-incoherent interpretations. While these problems are well understood, it is not clear how the dynamic, continuous mechanisms that underlie human language processing solve them. We introduce a Gradient Symbolic Computation (GSC) parser, a continuous-state, continu…

  • How constrained is language mixing in bi- and uni-modal production

    Michael T Putnam, Géraldine Légendre et al.ARTICLELinguistic Approaches to…2016

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  • Learning biases predict a word order universal

    Open AccessJennifer Culbertson, Paul Smolensky et al.ARTICLECognition2012

  • Listeners' knowledge of phonological universals: Evidence from nasal clusters

    Open AccessIris Berent, Tracy Lennertz et al.ARTICLEPhonology2009

    Optimality Theory explains typological markedness implications by proposing that all speakers possess universal constraints penalising marked structures, irrespective of the evidence provided by their language (Prince & Smolensky 2004). The account of phonological perception sketched here entails that markedness constraints reveal their presence by inducing perceptual ‘repairs’ to structures ungrammatical in the hearer's language. As onset cluste…

  • Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar

    Open AccessAlan Prince, Paul SmolenskyBOOKOptimality Theory2004

  • Deriving output probabilities in child Mandarin from a Dual-Optimization grammar

    Open AccessGéraldine Légendre, Paul Hagstrom et al.ARTICLELingua2004Cited by: 1References: 32

  • Learnability in Optimality Theory

    Bruce Tesar, Paul SmolenskyBOOKLearnability in Optimality Theory2000

    Highlighting the close relationship between linguistic explanation and learnability, Bruce Tesar and Paul Smolensky examine the implications of Optimality Theory (OT) for language learnability. Highlighting the close relationship between linguistic explanation and learnability, Bruce Tesar and Paul Smolensky examine the implications of Optimality Theory (OT) for language learnability. They show how the core principles of OT lead to the learning p…

  • Learning optimality-theoretic grammars

    Open AccessBruce Tesar, Bruce B Tesar et al.ARTICLELingua1998Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Learnability in Optimality Theory

    Bruce Tesar, Paul SmolenskyARTICLELinguistic Inquiry1998Cited by: 39References: 9

    In this article we show how Optimality Theory yields a highly general Constraint Demotion principle for grammar learning. The resulting learning procedure specifically exploits the grammatical structure of Optimality Theory, independent of the content of substantive constraints defining any given grammatical module. We decompose the learning problem and present formal results for a central subproblem, deducing the constraint ranking particular to…

  • On the Proper Treatment of Connectionism

    Paul SmolenskyCHAPTERReadings in Philosophy and…1993

  • An Optimality-Theoretic Typology of Case and Grammatical Voice Systems

    Open AccessGéraldine Légendre, William D Raymond et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Annual Meeting…1993

    Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Semantic Typology and Semantic Universals (1993)

  • Unifying Syntactic and Semantic Approaches to Unaccusativity: A Connectionist Approach

    Open AccessGéraldine Légendre, Yoshiro Miyata et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Annual Meeting…1991

    Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Grammar of Event Structure (1991), pp. 156-167

  • Representation in Connectionist Networks

    Paul SmolenskyARTICLEIntellectica Revue de l…1990

    Connectionist representations are mappings between elements in the problem domain and vectors of activity values. Since cognitive problems do not specify how this representation is to be done, an important part of connectionist cognitive modeling is specifying such a representation. Complex cognitive processing requires representation of complex structured data. This can be done by decomposing structures into roles and fillers, and building up co…

  • On the proper treatment of connectionism

    Open AccessPaul SmolenskyARTICLEBehavioral and Brain Sciences1988

    A set of hypotheses is formulated for a connectionist approach to cognitive modeling. These hypotheses are shown to be incompatible with the hypotheses underlying traditional cognitive models. The connectionist models considered are massively parallel numerical computational systems that are a kind of continuous dynamical system. The numerical variables in the system correspond semantically to fine-grained features below the level of the concepts…

  • Public Assistance, Female Headship, and Economic Well-Being

    Katharine Bradbury, Sheldon Danziger et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family1979Cited by: 6

    Katharine Bradbury, Sheldon Danziger, Eugene Smolensky, Paul Smolensky, Public Assistance, Female Headship, and Economic Well-Being, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 41, No. 3, Family Policy (Aug., 1979), pp. 519-535

  • Electricity Economics. Essays and Case Studies

    Ray Rees, Ralph Turvey et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1978

    Journal Article Electricity Economics. Essays and Case Studies Get access Electricity Economics. Essays and Case Studies. By Ralph Turvey and Dennis Anderson. (London: The Johns Hopkins University Press for The World Bank, 1977. Pp. xvii + 364.)The Marginal Cost and Pricing of Electricity. An Applied Approach. By Charles J . Cicchetti, William J. Gillen and Paul Smolensky. (Cambridge: Ballinger, 1977. Distributed by John Wiley & Sons, London. Pp.…