{"pk":31728,"title":"Explaning Language Universals In Connectionist Networks: The Acquisition of Morphological Rules","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Across languages there are certain characteristics\nwhich they share. Linguists, trying to explain lan-\nguage universals, have c o m e up with different theo-\nries: They argue for (1) the innateness of general\nlinguistic principles, (2) the communicative func-\ntions reflected in linguistic structure, (3) the psy-\nchological d e m a n d s placed upon language users, or\n(4) grammar-internal explanations. This paper tries\nto explain s o m e of the morphological universals in\nthe framework of a connectionist network, support-\ning the third approach. Employing simple recurrent\nnetworks, a series of experiments were done on var-\nious types of morphological rules. T h e results show\nthat the model's performance mirrors the extent to\nwhich the different types of rules occur in natural\nlanguages. The paper explains how the model has\ndiscovered these universals.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Submitted Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/574854ft","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Chan-Do","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lee","name_suffix":"","institution":"Taejon University , Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1993-01-01T13:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31728/galley/22796/download/"}]}