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A constructivist dual-representation model of verb inflection

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Publication date2000
Host publicationProceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
EditorsLila R. Gleitman, Aravind K. Joshi
Place of PublicationMahwah, N.J.
PublisherLAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOC PUBL
Pages977-982
Number of pages6
ISBN (print)0-8058-3879-1
<mark>Original language</mark>English
Event22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive-Science-Society - PHILADELPHIA
Duration: 13/08/200015/08/2000

Conference

Conference22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive-Science-Society
CityPHILADELPHIA
Period13/08/0015/08/00

Conference

Conference22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive-Science-Society
CityPHILADELPHIA
Period13/08/0015/08/00

Abstract

A constructivist neural network is presented that models impaired inflectional processing in German agrammatic aphasia. The model is based on a single mechanism and develops two types of representation through a constructivist learning process. The model accounts for data that has been taken as evidence for a dual mechanism theory of inflection, and it suggests an inflectional processing system that is based not on a distinction between regular and irregular cases, but between inflections that are easy and hard to learn. The model represents a succesful single-mechanism neural network account of verb inflections.