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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

Marc F. Joanisse
Affiliation:
Neuroscience Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520 {marcj; thaskell}@gizmo.usc.edu www-scf.usc.edu/~marcj siva.usc.edu/~thaskell
Todd R. Haskell
Affiliation:
Neuroscience Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520 {marcj; thaskell}@gizmo.usc.edu www-scf.usc.edu/~marcj siva.usc.edu/~thaskell

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.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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