Learning English Pronominals from Input And General-Purpose Learning Mechanis (Simulated by Artificial Neural Networks)
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Tabriz: tabriz university
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, 1388
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86 P.
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مکانیزم های آموزش
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داده
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شبکه های عصبی مصنوعی
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M.A.
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, English Language Teaching
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1388/07/05
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For the last half of twentieth century Generative Linguists following Chomsky have argued that grammar is innate, rule-governed and exists in brain as domain-specific module. One of the areas of language that attracted their attention the most is the complex system of referential elements in any language. This complexity is often discussed and construed as an indication of the innate predispositions for language learning. This study is done on the learnability of some of these pronouns by input and general-purpose learning mechanisms.the possibility of learning English pronominal elements in connectionist networks was investigated. The selected pronouns were he, she, him, her, himself and herself. These were tested in two different connectionist networks. First a feed forward back propagation network and second an Elman recurrent network. What the obtained results wholly indicate is the possibility of learning English pronouns by artificial neural network. But there were some inconsistencies between the results obtained from these two networks. First in almost all the simulations, the results obtained from the Elman network were closer to desired values. Then there were some cases where both a pronoun and its referent, the proper name, were activated. Also the networks' power for generalization to novel names was not as good as the encountered names. The reason for these behaviors of the networks is discussed in the related chapter. The findings of this study contribute to the emergentist and associationist accounts of language acquisition. It has the theoretical implication that the role of innate language-specific predispositions for language acquisition is not as much important as it is asserted in Generativism and there is the possibility of acquiring pronominal elements in English by data and general-purpose learning mechanisms..
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یادگیری ضمائر انگلیسی با داده و مکانیزم های عمومی آموزش (شبیه سازی با شبکه های عصبی مصنوعی)
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Artificial Neural Networks
Connectionism
Input
Learning Mechanisms
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Yousefi Halvaei, Mohammad Reza
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Ansarin, Ali Akbar, Supervisor
Feizi Derakhshi, Mohammad, Co-supervisor
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20211010
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پایان نامهPE,1127,.Y6L3,1388
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یادگیری ضمائر انگلیسی با داده و مکانیزم های عمومی آموزش ) شبیه سازی با شبکه های عصبی مصنوعی(