Welcome to your Chapter 10 - Self Study Quiz
1. What position does the Physical Symbol System Hypothesis take on linguistic rules?
2. What makes connectionist models of past tense learning different from Pinker and Prince’s model?
3. What is the principal challenge for neural network models of language learning?
4. What is the main difference between Plunkett and Marchman’s model of past tense learning and that of McClelland and Rumelhart?
5. What do high transitional probabilities tend to indicate?
6. When we hear the sentence “I’ll play with this red ball and you can play with that one.”, we can figure out that “that one” refers to a red ball rather than any ball. According to Bayesians, we can figure this out because we compare which of the following factor?
7. “Children are born with a bias in favor of interpreting category words as basic-level categories.” Which of the following group would agree with claim?
8. In deriving the likelihood of evidence, Xu and Tenenbaum used the size principle. What is the size principle?
9. Both connectionists and Bayesians think that language learning does not require explicit rules.
10. According to Fodor, what is the truth rule of the sentence “Felicia is tall”?
11. According to Fodor, which languages are truth rules formulated in?
12. The poverty of stimulus arguments are supposed to support which of the following view?
