Models of language acquisition

[Jaap Murre]

Dear Connectionists,

Recently two new books edited by us came out that may be of interest to you,
in particular the first one.

	-- Jaap Murre

Broeder, P., and J.M.J. Murre (Eds.) (2000). 'Models of Language
Acquisition: Inductive and Deductive Approaches'. Oxford University Press.

Broeder, P., and J.M.J. Murre (Eds.) (1999). 'Language and Thought in
Development. Cross-Linguistic Studies'. Tuebingen: Gunter Narr.

The contents of 'Models of Language Acquisition' is:

Peter Broeder and Jaap Murre -- 1. Introduction to models of language
acquisition

Brian MacWhinney -- 2. Lexicalist connectionism

Noel Sharkey, Amanda Sharkey, and Stuart Jackson -- 3. Are SRNs sufficient
for modelling language acquisition?

Antal van den Bosch and Walter Daelemans -- 4. A distributed, yet symbolic
model for text-to-speech processing

Steven Gillis, Walter Daelemans, and Gert Durieux -- 5. 'Lazy learning': a
comparison of natural and machine learning of word stress

Richard Shillcock, Paul Cairns, Nick Chater, and Joe Levy -- 6. Statistical
and connectionist modelling of the development of speech segmentation

Jeffrey Mark Siskind -- 7. Learning word-to-meaning mappings

Gary Marcus -- 8. Children's overregularization and its implication for
cognition

Rainer Goebel and Peter Indefrey -- 9. The performance of a recurrent
network with short term memory capacity learning the German -s plural

Ramin Nakisa, Kim Plunkett, and Ulrike Hahn -- 10. A cross-linguistic
comparison of single and dual-route models of inflectional morphology

Partha Nyogi and Robert C. Berwick -- 12. Formal models for learning in the
principles and parameters framework

Loeki Elbers -- 13.  An output-as-input hypothesis for language acquisition:
arguments, model, evidence