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Native Language Effects on Spelling in English as a Foreign Language: A Time-Course Analysis
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In: Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol 16, Iss 1, Pp 51-68 (2013) (2013)
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Review of: Ted Briscoe (ed.), Linguistic Evolution through Language Acquisition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002
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In: http://kybele.psych.cornell.edu/~edelman/on-briscoe.pdf
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Introduction ', by Ted Briscoe, the collection's editor), and in the concluding chapter 10 (by James Hurford; see below). The eight remaining chapters offer multi-faceted insights into how various aspects of language may have emerged: chapters 2 and 3 deal with words and word meanings, while chapters 5 through 9 focus on structural (`syntactic') issues. Chapter 4 (`Linguistic structure and the evolution of words', by Robert Worden) very appropriately bridges the two themes. In chapter 2, `Learned systems of arbitrary reference: the foundation of human linguistic uniqueness', Michael Oliphant's neural networks use standard learning algo1 rithms such as the Hebb rule to acquire consistent form-meaning pairings. The difficult aspects of this problem, as Oliphant remarks on p.47, have less to do with learning than with observing meaning. Interestingly, the process of spoon-feeding meanings to agents is automated (if not obviated) in the following chapter, `Bootstrapping grounded word sema
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URL: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.4.8930 http://kybele.psych.cornell.edu/~edelman/on-briscoe.pdf
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Visual Cues in Connectionist Models of Language Acquisition
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In: http://csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu/proceedings/2006/docs/p2582.pdf
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