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[Morten H. Christiansen]

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The following book may be of interest to the readers of this list:

Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (Eds.) (2001). Connectionist 
Psycholinguistics. Westport, CT: Ablex.




Description:

Setting forth the state of the art, leading researchers present a 
survey on the fast-developing field of Connectionist 
Psycholinguistics: using connectionist or "neural" networks, which 
are inspired by brain architecture, to model empirical data on human 
language processing. Connectionist psycholinguistics has already had 
a substantial impact on the study of a wide range of aspects of 
language processing, ranging from inflectional morphology, to word 
recognition, to parsing and language production.

Christiansen and Chater begin with an extended tutorial overview of 
Connectionist Psycholinguistics which is followed by the latest 
research by leading figures in each area of research. The book also 
focuses on the implications and prospects for connectionist models of 
language, not just for psycholinguistics, but also for computational 
and linguistic perspectives on natural language. The 
interdisciplinary approach will be relevant for, and accessible to 
psychologists, cognitive scientists, linguists, philosophers, and 
researchers in artificial intelligence. The book is suitable as a 
text book for advanced courses in connectionist approaches to 
language processing.  It can also be used as a recommended or 
complementary text book in graduate and advanced undergraduate 
courses on the psychology of language.


Table of Contents:

Preface
1. Connectionist Psycholinguistics: The Very Idea
	Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater

PART I: THE STATE OF THE ART
2.  Connectionist Psycholinguistics in Perspective
	Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater
3. Simulating Parallel Activation in Spoken Word Recognition
	M. Gareth Gaskell and William D. Marslen-Wilson
4. A Connectionist Model of English Past Tense and Plural Morphology
	Kim Plunkett and Patrick Juola
5. Finite Models of Infinite Language: A Connectionist Approach to Recursion
	Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater
6. Dynamic Systems for Sentence Processing
	Whitney Tabor and Michael K. Tanenhaus
7. Connectionist Models of Language Production: Lexical Access and Grammatical 
    Encoding
	Gary S. Dell, Franklin Chang, and Zenzi M. Griffin
8. A Connectionist Approach to Word Reading and Acquired Dyslexia: Extension to
    Sequential Processing
	David C. Plaut

PART II: FUTURE PROSPECTS
9. Constraint Satisfaction in Language Acquisition and Processing
	Mark S. Seidenberg and Maryellen C. MacDonald
10. Grammar-based Connectionist Approach to Language
	Paul Smolensky
11. Connectionist Sentence Processing in Perspective
	Mark Steedman

Index
About the Editors and Contributors


Connectionist psycholinguistics
Edited by Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater
ISBN: 1-56750-595-3 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1-56750-594-5 (hc.)
400 pages, figures, tables
Ablex Publishing


Best regards,
		Morten Christiansen

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