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Connectionist Approaches To Clinical Problems in Speech and Language

Therapeutic and Scientific Applications

• Edited by Raymond G. Daniloff

• Price: $39.95
• Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
• Pages: 328
• Published by: Psychology Press
• Publication Date: 1st August 2001
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-2214-4

About the Book

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

Contents: Preface. J.A. Norris, P.R. Hoffman, Language Development and Late Talkers: A Connectionist Perspective. S.S. Christman, Dynamic Systems Theory: Application to Language Development and Acquired Aphasia. D.A. Gagnon, N. Martin, Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Remediation of Acquired Naming Disorders From a Connectionist Perspective. D.M. Daly, Modeling Disordered Perception. E. Trentin, F. Brugnara, Y. Bengio, C. Furlanello, R. de Mori, Statistical and Neural Network Models for Speech Recognition. H.W. Buckingham, The Roots and Amalgams of Connectionism.