Conference Paper

A connectionist simulation of structural rule learning in language acquisition

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Language is structured noise; learning is powerful statistics—a neural network can capture “rules” without an algebraic mechanism.

Laakso, Aarre and Calvo, Paco. 2008. "A connectionist simulation of structural rule learning in language acquisition." In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, edited by Love, Brian C. et al., 709-714. Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX.