Book chapter
The Emergence of Language from Serial Order and Procedural Memory
The Emergence of Language, pp.447-481
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
01/01/1999
Abstract
Onset-rime syllable organization & other distributional asymmetries in the lexicon are claimed to emerge from the serially ordered character of words & the processing mechanisms necessary to retrieve sounds in sequence. A simple recurrent network model of speech error phenomena developed by Dell, C. Juliano, & A. Govindjee (1993) is reviewed in this connection to show that frequently occurring types of speech errors are jointly derived from distributional asymmetries & sequential retrieval. A similar network model is found to give an excellent account of data from a procedural memory paradigm, substantiating a parallel between procedural memory tasks & sound-sequence learning tasks in terms of multi-level sensitivity to sequential constraints. It is concluded that the incremental adjustment of connection weights in language learning may be a form of procedural memory, whereas mechanisms of both procedural & declarative memory are needed to learn a new word. 1 Table, 12 Figures, 54 References. J. Hitchcock
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Emergence of Language from Serial Order and Procedural Memory
- Creators
- Prahlad GuptaGary S Dell
- Contributors
- Brian MacWhinney (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- The Emergence of Language, pp.447-481
- Publisher
- Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; Mahwah, NJ
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/1999
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984214754902771
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