The field of formal linguistics was founded on the premise that language is mentally
represented as a deterministic symbolic grammar. While this approach has captured many …

This review summarizes a range of theoretical approaches to language acquisition. It argues
that language representations emerge from interactions at all levels from brain to society …

Setting forth the state of the art, leading researchers present a survey on the fast-developing
field of Connectionist Psycholinguistics: using connectionist or neural networks, which are …

The emphasis in the connectionist sentence-processing literature on distributed
representation and emergence of grammar from such systems can easily obscure the often …

This Special Issue on Connectionist Models of Human Language Processing provides an
opportunity for an appraisal both of specific connectionist models and of the status and utility …

Traditional approaches to language processing have been based on explicit, discrete
representations which are difficult to learn from a reasonable linguistic environment—hence …

Abstract The Neural Theory of Language project aims to build structured connectionist
models of language and cognition consistent with constraints from all domains and at all …

Does knowledge of language consist of mentally-represented rules? Rumelhart and
McClelland have described a connectionist (parallel distributed processing) model of the …

Ling and Marinov (L & M) have constructed an interesting symbolic alternative to current
connectionist models of language acquisition. The kind of detailed comparison of …

Risto Miikkulainen draws on recent connectionist work in language comprehension tocreate
a model that can understand natural language. Using the DISCERN system as an example …