Connectionist Modeling and the Microstructure of Phonological Development: A Progress Report

Abstract

describe a few of the key properties of children's attempts at words that a model must simulate [individual differences, regularity, context dependency, inertia and irregularity], and then report on our attempts to design a learning model, in which these properties will hopefully emerge / review a few of the unruly data which motivated the move to a connectionist approach / present a fairly thorough survey of the types of information available to the child learning to produce words a model of the child–parent phonology learning system: GEYKO [GEYKO is situated in an interactive framework, GEYKO's computational components, model stipulations and simulations, examples of GEYKO's intended behavior, auditory perception details, speech gesture planning details, learning speech gestures] / will the model account for the regularities observed in children (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)