#Gradient Symbolic Computation
##Paul Smolensky and Matt Goldrick
with the essential help of
##Nicholas Becker and Pyeong Whan Cho ###LSA 2015 Summer Linguistic Institute, University of Chicago
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Class 4A (Thursday, July 16, 2015)
Quantization: How to be discrete
<font; color='blue'> ##Optima of grammatical Harmony can be catastrophic blends
<font; color='black'> These are robust blends that are not clearly cognitively desirable -- as opposed to marginal blends, which are nearly discrete, and are often useful rather than problematic (as we saw with incomplete neutralization in Class 3).
¿ How should Figure 3-1 be ammended in order to encode the full HNF grammar
For the full grammar , compare the Grammatical Harmony of the grammatical tree with that of the blend . Which has higher Harmony and why?
The Unit Harmony function ("the bowl") is designed to ensure that as , we get . To achieve this, we set, for , where ; we must set sufficiently large that faster than (as it typically does).
Although adding a constant to the Harmony of all states has no effect (it does not change which state is optimal, nor does it change the relative probability of states), here we add a constant for convenience: it ensures that if the activation values in are all either 0 or 1, then .
How large must be to ensure this is something we will return to; but the larger the weights figuring into , the larger has to be.
#Quantization Harmony
In the Total Harmony , the Quantization Harmony is weighted by a factor , which typically grows during the computation, so that by the end, dominates the other terms and prevails in determining where the optima are: on the grid, where is maximal (at value 0).
##Devoicing with Quantization
Grammatical constraints:
FAITH(voice): The value of the feature [voice] of a segment in the output must be the same as the value of the [voice] feature in the corresponding input segment.
MARK(voice): No [+voice] obstruent output segments in syllable coda position.
Let: activity of output [+voice]; underlying /voice/ value; , weights of Faithfulness, Markedness:
Define total Harmony for the devoicing example as in Class 3, but with Quantization: ParseError: KaTeX parse error: Got function '\cal' with no arguments as subscript at position 38: …_0 + H_{1} +qH_\̲c̲a̲l̲{Q} where:
is the Harmonic Grammar value (Harmony from the 2 constraints, with quadratic Mark),
is the "Unit Harmony" (or "the bowl"); , and
is the "Quantization Harmony"
#Error intrusion
Superimposing the quadratic and linear Markedness cases: