Daffodil International University
Faculty of Humanities and Social Science => English => Topic started by: Md. Mostafa Rashel on December 14, 2014, 06:06:52 PM
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First Language Acquisition Theories : Connectionist Models
Theoretician(s)
• McClelland
• Rumelhart
Development, Hypotheses and assumptions
Hypothesis:
Language is built through connections, but not rules. (Post-behaviorist theory)
• meaning of words (bottle--> milk)
• PDP (Parallel Distributed Processing)
• Sufficient exposure
• Connectionist theories model language acquisition at the neural level. (acquisition of inflectional system)
REFERENCES
Gleason and Ratner (1998). Psycholinguistics. Second Edition. Forth Worth: Harcourt Brace Collage Publishers.
Keenan and Comrie (1977). "Noun phrase accessibility and universal grammar." Linguistic inquiry.8 (1), 63-99.