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The dual-mechanism model of inflectional morphology: A connectionist critique

Marc F. JoanisseTodd Haskell

Year: 1999 Journal:   Behavioral and Brain Sciences Vol: 22 (6)Pages: 1026-1027   Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Abstract

Clahsen has added to the body of evidence that, on average, regular and irregular inflected words behave differently. However, the dual-mechanism account he supports predicts a crisp distinction; the empirical data instead suggest a fuzzy one, more in line with single-mechanism connectionist models.

Keywords:
Connectionism Mechanism (biology) Dual (grammatical number) Morphology (biology) Computer science Cognitive science Psychology Artificial intelligence Cognitive psychology Linguistics Artificial neural network Philosophy Epistemology Geology Paleontology

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Topics

Language and cultural evolution
Social Sciences →  Social Sciences →  Cultural Studies
Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Social Sciences →  Arts and Humanities →  Language and Linguistics
Linguistic Variation and Morphology
Social Sciences →  Social Sciences →  Linguistics and Language

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