Language learning and innateness: Some implications of Compounds Research

Haskell, Todd; MacDonald, Maryellen C.; Seidenberg, Mark S.

doi:10.1016/s0010-0285(03)00007-0

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“…Moreover, the "analogy" method, if spelled out explicitly, could apply as well to fully regular forms, obviating the need for a rule entirely. Similar issues have arisen with respect to other types of data initially argued to support the dual-mechanism view (see, e.g., Haskell et al, 2003;McClelland & Patterson, 2002).…”

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“…This research has been highly controversial, however, with many responses to the work focusing on issues such as the necessity of symbolic rules, the adequacy of connectionist models, the characterization and interpretation of behavioral data, the lack of computational specificity in the dual-mechanism approach, and so on (Daugherty & Seidenberg, 1992;Haskell, MacDonald, & Seidenberg, 2003;MacWhinney & Leinbach, 1991;Plunkett & Marchman, 1993;Ramscar, 2002). Perhaps the main problem concerns the claim that because the regular and irregular forms are governed by distinct subsystems, they "should be dissociable from virtually every point of view" (Pinker, 1991, p. 532).…”

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“…Building on Rumelhart and McClelland's (1986) original proposal, we developed a general theoretical framework in which the production of morphological forms is seen as a constraint satisfaction problem, with the correct form determined by multiple probabilistic sources of linguistic information (Joanisse & Seidenberg, 1999). These constraints principally involve semantic and phonological information but may include other factors such as orthographic knowledge if the task involves reading, pragmatic considerations (e.g., avoiding ambiguity; Haskell et al, 2003), and context if one is provided (Ramscar, 2002). We have focused primarily on phonology and semantics, which are sufficient to account for many facts about skilled performance.…”

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Imaging the past: Neural activation in frontal and temporal regions during regular and irregular past-tense processing

Joanisse

Seidenberg

2005

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

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This article presents fMRI evidence bearing on dual-mechanism versus connectionist theories of inflectional morphology. Ten participants were scanned at 4 Tesla as they covertly generated the past tenses of real and nonce (nonword) verbs presented auditorily. Regular past tenses (e.g., walked, wugged) and irregular past tenses (e.g., took, slept) produced similar patterns of activation in the posterior temporal lobe in both hemispheres. In contrast, there was greater activation in left and right inferior frontal gyrus for regular past tenses than for irregular past tenses. Similar previous results have been taken as evidence for the dual-mechanism theory of the past tense (Pinker & Ullman, 2002). However, additional analyses indicated that irregulars that were phonologically similar to regulars (e.g., slept, fled, sold) produced the same level of activation as did regulars, and significantly more activation than did irregulars that were not phonologically similar to regulars (e.g., took, gave). Thus, activation patterns were predicted by phonological characteristics of the past tense rather than by the rule-governed versus exception distinction that is central to the dual-mechanism framework. The results are consistent with a constraint satisfaction model in which phonological, semantic, and other probabilistic constraints jointly determine the past tense, with different degrees of involvement for different verbs.

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Imaging the past: Neural activation in frontal and temporal regions during regular and irregular past-tense processing

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Seidenberg

2005

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

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“…In English, for example, compounds with singular modifiers are more acceptable than those with plural ones, and amongst those with plural modifiers, compounds with regular plural modifiers are less acceptable than those with irregular ones; compare goose/duck feeder,?geese feeder, *ducks feeder (e.g., Haskell et al, 2003;Cunnings and Clahsen, 2007). The so-called plurals-in-compounds effect is subject to a number of subtle linguistic constraints (see below), which have been widely studied in the psycholinguistic literature, albeit mainly in behavioural experiments.…”

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Producing morphologically complex words: An ERP study with children and adults

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Paulmann

Barry

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Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

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A widely studied morphological phenomenon in psycholinguistic research is the plurals-inside-compounds effect in English, which is the avoidance of regular plural modifiers within compounds (e.g., *rats hunter). The current study employs event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to investigate the production of plurals-inside-compounds in children and adults. We specifically examined the ERP correlates of producing morphologically complex words in 8-year-olds, 12-year-olds and adults, by recording ERPs during the silent production of compounds with plural or singular modifiers. Results for both children and adults revealed a negativity in response to compounds produced from regular plural forms when compared to compounds formed from irregular plurals, indicating a highly specific brain response to a subtle linguistic contrast. Although children performed behaviourally with an adult-like pattern in the task, we found a broader distribution and a considerably later latency in children's brain potentials than in adults', indicating that even in late childhood the brain networks involved in language processing are subject to subtle developmental changes.

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“…Some verbs have typical past-tense formations (e.g., STAY-STAYED), but others do not (e.g., SAY-SAID). Other examples include pluralization in English (Haskell, MacDonald, & Seidenberg, 2003) and Hebrew (Berent, Pinker, & Shimron, 2002), and past-participle formation in German (Beretta, Carr, Huang, & Cao, 2003).…”

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Dissociations in Performance on Novel Versus Irregular Items: Single-Route Demonstrations With Input Gain in Localist and Distributed Models

2005

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Four pairs of connectionist simulations are presented in which quasi-regular mappings are computed using localist and distributed representations. In each simulation, a control parameter termed input gain was modulated over the only level of representation that mapped inputs to outputs. Input gain caused both localist and distributed models to shift between regularity-based and item-based modes of processing. Performance on irregular items was selectively impaired in the regularity-based modes, whereas performance on novel items was selectively impaired in the item-based modes. Thus, the models exhibited double dissociations without separable processing components. These results are discussed in the context of analogous dissociations found in language domains such as word reading and inflectional morphology.

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Language learning and innateness: Some implications of Compounds Research

Cited by 60 publications

References 62 publications

Imaging the past: Neural activation in frontal and temporal regions during regular and irregular past-tense processing

Imaging the past: Neural activation in frontal and temporal regions during regular and irregular past-tense processing

Producing morphologically complex words: An ERP study with children and adults

Dissociations in Performance on Novel Versus Irregular Items: Single-Route Demonstrations With Input Gain in Localist and Distributed Models

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