Connectionist Psycholinguistics

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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.

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[t]his volume portrays an active and influential field of connectionist psycholinguistics....[I]n all, it seems that the hope for a formal, mathematical treatment of complex phenomena really is possible, and we are closer to it because of the contributions in this book.-APA Review of Books
"this volume portrays an active and influential field of connectionist psycholinguistics....In all, it seems that the hope for a formal, mathematical treatment of complex phenomena really is possible, and we are closer to it because of the contributions in this book."-APA Review of Books
"[t]his volume portrays an active and influential field of connectionist psycholinguistics....[I]n all, it seems that the hope for a formal, mathematical treatment of complex phenomena really is possible, and we are closer to it because of the contributions in this book."-APA Review of Books

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Morten H. Christiansen is in the Departments of Psychology and Linguistics at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Nick Chater is in the Department of Psychology at the University of Warwick, U.K.