{"pk":32987,"title":"A Connectionist Model of Verb Subcategorization","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Much of the debate on rule-based vs. connectionist models in language acquisition has focussed on the English past tense. This paper investigates a new area, the acquisition of verb subcategorization. Verbs differ in how they express their arguments or subcategorize for them. For example, \"She gave him a book.\" is good, but \"She donated him a book.\" sounds odd. The paper describes a connectionist model for the acquisition of verb subcategorization and how it accounts for overgeneralization and learning in the absence of explicit negative evidence. It is argued that the model presents a better explanation for the transition from the initial rule-less state to final rule-like behavior for some verb classes than the symbolic account proposed by Pinker (1989).","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Refereed Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2x51c64n","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Hinrich","middle_name":"","last_name":"Schiitze","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford University","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/32987/galley/24048/download/"}]}