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Westermann, Gert; Ruh, Nicolas – Psychological Review, 2012
We present a neural network model of learning and processing the English past tense that is based on the notion that experience-dependent cortical development is a core aspect of cognitive development. During learning the model adds and removes units and connections to develop a task-specific final architecture. The model provides an integrated…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Semantics, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Aphasia
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Roland, Douglas; Dick, Frederic; Elman, Jeffrey L. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2007
Many recent models of language comprehension have stressed the role of distributional frequencies in determining the relative accessibility or ease of processing associated with a particular lexical item or sentence structure. However, there exist relatively few comprehensive analyses of structural frequencies, and little consideration has been…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Psycholinguistics, Grammar, Child Language
Aaronson, Doris, Ed.; Rieber, Robert W., Ed. – 1979
In this book, current work and issues in psycholinguistics are reviewed by 19 noted authorities in the fields of psychology, linguistics, education, psychiatry, and medicine. The seven sections of the book discuss past and present issues in psycholinguistics (including controversial issues and the theoretical and historical roots of…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Generative Phonology
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Bates, Elizabeth; Goodman, Judith C. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Notes that in linguistic theory, phenomena previously handled by a separate grammatical component have been moved into the lexicon and that in some theories, the contrast between grammar and the lexicon has vanished. Concludes that the case for a modular distinction between grammar and the lexicon has been overstated and that the evidence to date…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Change Agents, Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics