gblee@maui.cs.ucla.edu (03/24/89)
In article <16050@oberon.USC.EDU> you write: >In article <2726@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> spam@clutx.clarkson.edu writes: >>I just read a rather scathing article by Steven Pinker (MIT) and > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>Alan Prince (Brandeis) that tore PDP apart. Has anyone seen any >>responses to this article that defend Rumelhart and McClelland? >>The article bummed me out, and I'm not up enough on language >>processing to really debate what they claim. >> >>++ Roger Gonzalez ++ spam@clutx.clarkson.edu ++ Clarkson University ++ > > Could you please post a complete reference to this article (where >it was published etc.). I am sure many of us will be interested in >getting hold of a copy. > Thank you, > >bs manjunath. The article is : Pinker, S. and Prince, A. (1988). On language and connectionism: analysis of a parallel distributed processing models of language inqusition. Cognition, Vol. 28, PP 73-193. Actually this volume of cognition contains two other papers which attack PDP model and it is published as a book. the two other articles are: Fodor, J. and Pylyshyn, A. (1988) Connectionism and cognitive architecture: a critical analysis. Lachter, J and Bever, T. G. (1988) The relation between linguistic structure and associative theories of language learning -- A constructive critique of some connectionist learning models. -- Geunbae Lee AI Lab, UCLA