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Publication details [#27033]

Jensen, Knud Anker and Ib Ulbaek. 1994. The learning of the past tense of Danish verbs: Language learning in neural networks. Applied Linguistics 15 (1) : 15–35.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

computer simulation | past | phonology1 | tense | verb, teaching of

Language as a subject

Danish

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

0142-6001

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This paper which considers artificial learning and testing results, argues that simple neural networks can generalize the past tense (of in casu Danish verbs) from the base verb form and that phonological features play an important role in generalizing.