{"pk":31856,"title":"Learning the Arabic Plural: The Case for Minority Default Mappings in Connectionist Networks.","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Connectionist accounts of inflectional morphology have \nfocussed on the domain of the English Past Tense (e.g. \nRumelhart & McClelland 1986; Plunkett & Marchman \n1993). In this inflectional domain, the default mapping \nprocess (add /ed/) reflecLs the process of suffixation \nadopted by the majority of the forms in the language. \nConnectionist models exploit the imbalance between \nEngHsh regular and irregular verbs when learning the \npast tense and when responding to novel forms in a \ndefault fashion. Not all inflectional systems have a \ndefault mapping which is characterized by a majority of \nforms in the language. The Arabic Plural System has \nbeen cited (Marcus et al. 1993) as one such system \nwhere a minority default mapping process operates. The \nSound Plural in Arabic applies to only a minority of \nforms in the lexicon (~104;), yet it appears to adopt the \nrole of a default mapping for novel nouns. W e describe a \nconnectionist model that can learn a minority default \nmapping analogous to the Arabic plural and discuss its \nperformance in relation to type and token frequency \neffects, and their distribution within phonetic space.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Refereed Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3sg1g4cx","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Neil","middle_name":"","last_name":"Forrester","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Oxford","department":""},{"first_name":"Kim","middle_name":"","last_name":"Plunkett","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Oxford","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1994-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31856/galley/22923/download/"}]}