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Connectionism and French gender attribution: Sokolik and Smith re-visited

University of East Anglia

Sokolik and Smith (1992) report on a connectionist model of the acquisition of French gender attribution which has been widely reported to have shown that such models are ‘capable of learning the gender of a large set of French nouns’. These claims are examined by reference to various results gained through a number of extensions to their network model. These results suggest a degree of caution in accepting Sokolik and Smith's conclusions. Further discussion suggests that the search for a computational account of gender attribution is, perhaps, misguided.

Second Language Research, Vol. 15, No. 4, 412-427 (1999)
DOI: 10.1191/026765899676522857


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