COMPUTATIONAL PSYCHOLINGUISTICS: AI AND CONNECTIONISTMODELS OF HUMAN LANGUAGE PROCESSING. Ton Dijkstra & Koenraadde Smedt (Eds.). Bristol, PA: Taylor & Francis, 1996. Pp. xv + 437. $79.95 cloth,$29.95 paper.

Abstract

Computational Psycholinguistics is an integrated collection by researchers within psycholinguistics aimed at providing a balanced treatment of current computational modeling in both language perception and generation. The initial chapters of the book provide an introduction to the general techniques used in computational modeling (Dijkstra & de Smedt), as well as perspectives from traditional symbolic artificial intelligence (Daelemans & de Smedt) and connectionist approaches (Murre & Goebel). The themes presented in the introductory chapters are well integrated into the rest of the book, consistent with the goal of providing a relatively self-contained introduction, suitable for a graduate-level psycholinguistics classroom or a general introductory source.