Extending the past-tense debate: a model of the German plural
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One of the phenomena that has been studied extensively in cognitive science is learning the English past tense. Many models have been made of the characteristic U-shape in performance on irregular verbs during development. An important test case for such models is whether they can be extended to other examples of inflection. A case that is often quoted as particularly tough is the German plural. In the present study, an ACT-R model of the past tense is applied to the German plural. The model not only successfully learns the default rule, but also exhibits some other characteristics of the German plural.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001