Learning The Past Tenses of English Verbs: Implicit Rules or Parallel Distributed Processing
Brian MacWhinney · Psychology Press eBooks · 2014
Scholars of language and psycho linguistics have been among the first to stress the importance of rules in describing human behavior. The reason for this is obvious. Many aspects of language can be characterized by rules, and the speakers of natural languages speak the language correctly. Therefore, systems of rules are useful in characterizing, at least approximately, what they will and will not say. Though we all make mistakes when we speak, we have a pretty good ear for what is right and what is wrong, and these judgments of correctness are generally even easier to characterize by rules than actual utterances are.