The reality of linguistic rules / [edited by] Susan D. Lima, Roberta L. Corrigan, Gregory K. Iverson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lima, Susan D., Author.

Contributor:

Lima, Susan D.

Corrigan, Roberta.

Iverson, Gregory K.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 26.

Studies in language companion series (SLCS), 0165-7763 ; v. 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistic analysis (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (504 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume presents a selection of the best papers from the 21st Annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium. Researchers from linguistics, psychology, computer science, and philosophy, using many different methods and focusing on many different facts of language, addressed the question of the existence of linguistic rules. Are such rules best seen as convenient tools for the description of languages, or are rules actually invoked by individual language users? Perhaps the most serious challenge to date to the linguistic rule is the development of connectionist architecture.

Contents:

THE REALITY OF LINGUISTIC RULES; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Table of contents; Contributors; Introduction; I. For the Existence of Symbolic Rules; On the Typology of Grammatical Principles; A Schema-Based Approach to Grammatical Description; A Nonpsychological Realist Conception of Linguistic Rules; An Acceptable Ungrammatical Construction; Systematic Hyperforeignisms as Maximally External Evidence for Linguistic Rules; II. Alternatives to Rules; Grammar within a Neural Network

The Induction of Prosodic Constraints: Implications for Phonological Theory and Mental RepresentationRule-Less Morphology at the Phonology-Lexicon Interface; Towards Connectionist Lexical Semantics; Productivity and the English Past Tense: Testing Skousen's Analogy Model; III. Language Acquisition and Learnability; Current Grammars vs. Rule Driven Guessing in Children's Interpretation of Some Complex Sentence Types; Extraction Restrictions, Competing Theories and the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus; The Perceptual Infrastructure of Early Phonological Development

IV. Modularity and Related IssuesThe Dinosaurs and the Ring; Regular and Irregular Morphology and the Psychological Status of Rules of Grammar; Beyond Rules and Exceptions: A Connectionist Approach to Inflectional Morphology; One System or Two to Handle Regulars and Exceptions: How Time-course of Processing can Inform this Debate; Combining Connectionist and Symbolic Properties in a Single Process; Finnish Nominal Inflection: Paradigmatic Patterns and Token Analogy; Author Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-23399-1

9786613233998

90-272-8203-X

OCLC:

746747262