The German plural system has recently become a focal point for conflicting theories of language, both linguistic and cognitive. Marcus et al. (1995) highlight the German plural as support for the dual-route account of inflectional morphology first proposed by Pinker and colleagues (Pinker & Prince, 1988). On the dual-route account, inflectional morphology is universally subserved by a symbolic ...

An interesting area of psycholinguistic inquiry is to discover the way morphological structures are stored in the human mind and how they are retrieved during comprehension or production of language. The current study probed into what goes on in the mind of EFL learners when processing derivational morphology and how English and Persian derivational suffixes are processed. 60 Iranian EFL learne...

An integrative dual-route model of rhythm perception and production is proposed here. Furthermore, an empirical study illustrated in the second part of this paper provides evidence of the existence of two different cognitive pathways. The development of the model is based on fundamental psychological principles of perception, action control and relevant neurobiological findings in rhythm proces...

We present a constructivist neural network model of German past participle verb inflection. The model builds its architecture in response to the learning task in a way consistent with neurobiological and psychological evidence. In contrast to most single-route connectionist models with a fixed, homogeneous architecture our model (1) reaches adult performance on an extensive corpus of German ver...

According to some dual-route theories of word naming, an inhibitory effect of length is caused by assembled phonology. Exception words are read via addressed phonology, and so should be immune from length effects. Analyses reported here show, however, that there is an inhibitory length effect for both regular and exception words, and this effect is no smaller for exception than regular words. T...

The time for skilled readers to name a non-word increases as the number of letters increase, and also increases when the stimulus is degraded. These effects are known as the length effect and stimulus quality effect, respectively. Besner and Roberts (2002) reported that the joint effect of these two factors on RT are additive in skilled readers. They also reported that the leading computational...

An implementation of neural network models for reading English words aloud is proposed. Since 1989, there has been existing a debate in neuropsycholgy and cognitive science about the models of reading. One is the Dual Route Cascaded model, another is the Triangle model. Since there exist arbitrary variables in both models, it was difficult to decide which model would be appropriate to explain t...

At least 3 different types of computational model have been shown to account for various facets of both normal and impaired single word reading: (a) the connectionist triangle model, (b) the dual-route cascaded model, and (c) the connectionist dual process model. Major strengths and weaknesses of these models are identified. In the spirit of nested incremental modeling, a new connectionist dual...