Connectionist Approaches To Clinical Problems in Speech and Language: Therapeutic and Scientific Applications - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805822143 ISBN 13: 9780805822144

Publisher: Psychology Press, 2001

Synopsis

Connectionist accounts of language acquisition, processing, and dissolution proliferate despite attacks from some linguists, cognitive scientists, and engineers. Although the networks of exquisitely interconnected perceptrons postulated by PDP theorists may not be anatomically homologous with actual brain anatomy, a growing body of research suggests that the posited network functions can support many human behaviors. This volume brings together contributors with a variety of backgrounds and perspectives to explore, for the first time, the clinical implications of whole-language connectionist models. Demonstrating that these models are powerful and have explained many phenomena of language acquisition, language therapy, and speech processing, especially at the engineering level, they focus specifically on applications of connectionist theory to delayed language, aphasia, phonological acquisition, and speech perception. Connectionist models, they conclude, offer a new interpretive framework for the discussion of information processing in humans and other animals that will be of great utility to all those who study language and seek to intervene in language disorders.

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Raymond G. Daniloff

Edition details

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805822143
• ISBN 13: 9780805822144
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 326
• Editor: Daniloff Raymond G.