Connectionist Approaches To Clinical Problems in Speech and Language: Therapeutic and Scientific Applications

by Daniloff, Raymond G.; McClelland, James L.; Muma, John R.; Buckingham, Hugh

• ISBN13: 9780805822144
• ISBN10: 0805822143
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

Connectionist accounts of language acquisition, processing, and dissolution proliferate despite attacks from some linguists, cognitive scientists, and engineers. Although the networks of exquisitely interconnected perceptrons postulated by PDP theorists may not be anatomically homologous with actual brain anatomy, a growing body of research suggests that the posited network functions can support many human behaviors. This volume brings together contributors with a variety of backgrounds and perspectives to explore, for the first time, the clinical implications of whole-language connectionist models. Demonstrating that these models are powerful and have explained many phenomena of language acquisition, language therapy, and speech processing, especially at the engineering level, they focus specifically on applications of connectionist theory to delayed language, aphasia, phonological acquisition, and speech perception. Connectionist models, they conclude, offer a new interpretive framework for the discussion of information processing in humans and other animals that will be of great utility to all those who study language and seek to intervene in language disorders.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Language Development and Late Talkers: A Connectionist Perspective	1	(110)
Janet A. Norris
Paul R. Hoffman
Dynamic Systems Theory: Application to Language Development and Acquired Aphasia	111	(36)
Sarah S. Christman
Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Remediation of Acquired Naming Disorders from a Connectionist Perspective	147	(42)
Deborah A. Gagnon
Nadine Martin
Modeling Disordered Perception	189	(24)
D. Michael Daly
Statistical and Neural Network Models for Speech Recognition	213	(52)
Edmondo Trentin
Fabio Brugnara
Yoshua Bengio
Cesare Furlanello
Renato de Mori
The Roots and Amalgams of Connectionism	265	(48)
Hugh W. Buckingham
Index	313