Do type and token effects reflect different mechanisms? Connectionist modeling of Dutch past-tense formation and final devoicing

Brain and Language

Volumn 90, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 287-298

  Del Prado Martín, Fermín Moscoso ^a,b   Ernestus, Mirjam ^a   Baayen, R Harald ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Brain Sciences Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accumulation of expectations; Connectionist model; Dutch; Final devoicing; Orthography; Past tense formation; Simple recurrent networks; Token based effects; Type based analogical effects

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MODEL; NETHERLANDS; PHONEME; SEMANTICS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NETHERLANDS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PHONETICS;

EID: 2542475955     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2003.12.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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