Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-2plfb Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-01T04:35:27.818Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Sentence comprehension: The integration of habits and rules. David J. Townsend and Thomas G. Bever. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. Pp. 455.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2002

Ngoni Chipere
Ngoni Chipere
Affiliation:
University of Reading
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

This book attempts to integrate symbolic processing, in the form of minimalism, with connectionism. Minimalism represents sentences as symbolic structures resulting from a formal process of syntactic derivation. Connectionism, on the other hand, represents sentences as patterns of association between linguistic features. These patterns are said to obey statistical regularities of linguistic usage instead of formal linguistic rules. The authors of the book argue that human sentence processing displays both structural and statistical characteristics and therefore requires the integration of the two views.

Type
Book Review
Information
Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , September 2002 , pp. 471 - 477
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)