Models of Language Acquisition: Inductive and Deductive Approaches

Chapter 1: Introduction PART I: WORDS Chapter 2: Lexicalist Connectionism Chapter 3: Are SRNs Sufficient for Modelling Language Acquisition? Chapter 4: A Distributed, Yet Symbolic Model for Text-to-Speech Processing Chapter 5: "Lazy Learning": A Comparison of Natural and Machine Learning of Word Stress PART II: WORD FORMATION Chapter 6: Statistical and Connectionist Modelling of the Development of Speech Segmentation Chapter 7: Learning Word-to-Meaning Mappings Chapter 8: Children's Overregularization and its Implication for Cognition Chapter 9: The Performance of a Recurrent Network with Short Term Memory Capacity Learning the German -S Plural Chapter 19: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison of Single and Dual-Route Models of Inflectional Morphology PART III: WORD ORDER Chapter 11: Formal Models for Learning in the Principles and Parameters Framework Chapter 12: An Output-as-Input Hypothesis for Language Acquisition: Arguments, Model, Evidence