Theories of language production have long been expressed as connectionist models. We
outline the issues and challenges that must be addressed by connectionist models of lexical …

We describe two primary stages in the top-down process of lexical access in production, a
stage of lemma access in which words are retrieved as syntactic-semantic entities, and a …

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 …

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 …

Constructionist approaches to language hypothesize that grammar can be learned from the
input using domain‐general mechanisms. This emphasis has engendered a great deal of …

The ability to combine words into novel sentences has been used to argue that humans
have symbolic language production abilities. Critiques of connectionist models of language …

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 …

Theories of sentence production that involve a convergence of activation from conceptual‐
semantic and syntactic‐sequential units inspired a connectionist model that was trained to …

Linguistic adaptation is a phenomenon where language representations change in
response to linguistic input. Adaptation can occur on multiple linguistic levels such as …

Cognitive Linguistics proposes that First Language Acquisition (L1A) involves the
acquisition from language usage of constructions that map linguistic form and function. In …