Learning Inflectional Classes
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We describe several experiments in computational modeling that require a system to infer the existence of inflectional classes, which are morphological classes that play a role in neither syntax nor semantics. A feed-forward connectionist model will utilize patterns of activation (rather than units) in its hidden layer to encode such abstract morphological patterns. We compare this with discussion of similar problems by linguists (Aronoff, 1994; Haspelmath, 2002) and psycholinguists (MacWhinney, Leinbach, Taraban, & McDonald, 1989) and draw conclusions regarding the relationship between the goals and psycholinguistics studies of language acquisition.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006