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Download full textMacWhinney, Brian; Leinbach, Jared – 1990
A model of the child's learning of the past tense forms of English verbs is discussed. This connectionist model takes as input a present-tense verb and provides as output a past tense form. A new simulation is applied to 13 problems raised by critics of the model, presented as fundamental flaws in the conceptualizations underlying connectionism.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Concept Formation, English, Language Acquisition
