Expanding the Role od Connectionism in SLA Theory.

Autor/in	Nelson, Robert
Titel	Expanding the Role od Connectionism in SLA Theory.
Quelle	In: Language learning, 63 (2013) 1, S. 1-33Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Anhang; Abbildungen 4; Anmerkungen 6
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0023-8333; 1467-9922
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-9922.2012.00699.x
Schlagwörter	Empirische Forschung; Gedächtnis; Problemlösen; Wortschatz; Bilingualismus; Zweitsprachenerwerb
Abstract	In this article, the author explores how connectionism might expand its role in second language acquisition (SLA) theory by showing how some symbolic models of bilingual and second language lexical memory can be reduced to a biologically realistic (i.e., neurally plausible) connectionist model. This integration or hybridization of the two models follows the principles of what philosophers of science call intertheoretic reduction. Such a reduction serves two important purposes: It expands the explanatory scope of the symbolic models and it explains how some features of these models can actually emerge through learning in neural systems. To this end, the author presents a connectionist simulation of experimental data and show both the general feasibility of such a reduction and the specific manner in which the salient phenomenological distinction between form and meaning may be an emergent product of cortical memory processes. He argues this intertheoretic reduction of the symbolic to the neural serves an important goal of SLA, as these neural models can provide the theory of learning lacking in symbolic models of SLA. (Verlag, adapt.).
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Update	2022/2