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Peer reviewedGasser, Michael – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1990
Examines the implications of connectionist models of cognition for second-language theory, in which all knowledge is embodied in a network of simple processing units joined by connections that are strengthened or weakened in response to regularities in input patterns. A connectionist framework is proposed within which hypotheses about…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Processing, Language Universals


