Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Preface v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Contributors ix
5. The Reality of Linguistic Rules xiii
6. I For the Existence of Symbolic Rules
7. On the Typology of Grammatical Principles 3
8. A Schema-Based Approach to Grammatical Description 19
9. A Nonpsychological Realist Conception of Linguistic Rules 43
10. An Acceptable Ungrammatical Construction 51
11. Systematic Hyperforeignisms as Maximally External Evidence for Linguistic Rules 67
12. II Alternatives to Rules
13. Grammar within a Neural Network 95
14. The Induction of Prosodic Constraints 115
15. Rule-Less Morphology at the Phonology-Lexicon Interface 147
16. Towards Connectionist Lexical Semantics 171
17. Productivity and the English Past Tense 193
18. III Language Acquisition and Learnability
19. Current Grammars vs. Rule Driven Guessing in Children's Interpretations of some Complex Sentence Types 221
20. Extraction Restrictions, Competing Theories and the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus 243
21. The Perceptual Infrastructure of Early Phonological Development 261
22. IV Modularity and Related Issues
23. The Dinosaurs and the Ring 283
24. Regular and Irregular Morphology and the Psychological Status of Rules of Grammar 321
25. Beyond Rules and Exceptions 353
26. One System or Two to Handle Regulars and Exceptions 389
27. Combining Connectionist and Symbolic Properties in a Single Process 417
28. Finnish Nominal Inflection 445
29. Author Index 467
30. Subject Index 475