The Evolution of Linguistic Models
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The Chomskyan tradition assumed that generative rules are connected serially, with one connection between each pair of neurons in the brain. This assumption was challenged by what model?

  • Spolsky model
  • Messy but fruitful model
  • Serial processing model
  • Parallel distributed processing (PDP) model (correct)
  • What does the parallel distributed processing (PDP) model propose about information processing?

  • Information is processed simultaneously at several levels of attention (correct)
  • Information is not processed at all
  • Information is processed serially
  • Information is processed randomly
  • What are some of the levels of attention that the brain attends to while reading?

  • Serial connections between neurons
  • One rule being applied after another
  • Letters, word juncture, and meaning (correct)
  • Random neural interconnections
  • What does the text suggest about a child's (or adult's) linguistic performance?

    <p>It is a process of simultaneous interconnections at multiple levels</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was provided by the parallel distributed processing (PDP) model?

    <p>A simultaneous process of information processing</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Language development is intertwined with which of the following?

    <p>Cognition and memory</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which area of linguistic research did investigations by Kuczaj (1984) and Budwig (1995) focus on?

    <p>Interactive, communicative functions of language</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is being tackled in all its variability within the perspective of language development?

    <p>The communicative and pragmatic function of language</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which researchers explored the interaction between a child's language acquisition and the learning of how social systems operate in human behavior?

    <p>Holzman, Berko-Gleason, and Lock</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do investigations of child language focus on?

    <p>Talking with others, connected pieces of discourse, interaction between hearer and speaker, and conversational cues</p> Signup and view all the answers

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