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| 1994 | - | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language - Pinker | :: | 120 |
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| 1990 | - | Finding structure in time - Elman | :: | 49 |
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| 1995 | - | Learning and morphological change - Hare,Elman | :: | 41 |
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| 1991 | - | The Evolution of the Critical Period for Language Acquisition - Hurford | :: | 31 |
| 1987 | - | How Learning Can Guide Evolution - Hinton,Nowlan | :: | 31 |
| 1984 | - | The Language Bioprogram Hypothesis - Bickerton | :: | 30 |
| 1975 | - | Reflections on Language - Chomsky | :: | 28 |
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| 1986 | - | Knowledge of Language - Chomsky | :: | 23 |
| 1989 | - | Learnability and Cognition: The acquisition of Argument Structure - Pinker | :: | 22 |
| 1984 | - | Language Learnability and Language Development - Pinker | :: | 21 |
| 1991 | - | Familial Aggregation of a Developmental Language Disorder - Gopnik,Crago | :: | 20 |
| 1975 | - | The Language of Thought - Fodor | :: | 19 |
| 1991 | - | Distributed representations, simple recurrent networks, and grammatical structure - Elman | :: | 18 |
| 1990 | - | Maturational Constraints on Language Learning - Newport | :: | 17 |
| 1982 | - | Exaptation A Missing Term in the Science of Form - Gould,Vrba | :: | 14 |
| 1979 | - | The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme - Gould,Lewontin | :: | 13 |
| 1956 | - | Three Models for the Description of Language - Chomsky | :: | 12 |
| 1991 | - | Language Acquisition in the Absence of Experience - Crain | :: | 12 |
| 1963 | - | Finitary Models of Language Users - Miller,Chomsky | :: | 11 |
| 1991 | - | Language, tools, and brain: The ontogeny and phylogeny of hierarchically organized sequential behavior - Greenfield | :: | 11 |
| 1988 | - | Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture: A Critical Analysis - Fodor,Pylyshyn | :: | 10 |
| 1992 | - | A PDP Approach to Processing Center-Embedded Sentences - Weckerly,Elman | :: | 7 |
| 1991 | - | Rules of Language - Pinker | :: | 6 |
| 1989 | - | A Specialization for Speech Perception - Liberman,Mattingly | :: | 6 |
| 1990 | - | Feature-blind Grammar and Dysphasia - Gopnik | :: | 6 |
| 1984 | - | The Grammatical Basis of Linguistic Performance: Language Use and Acquisition - Berwick,Weinberg | :: | 6 |
| 1992 | - | On the Evolution of Language and Generativity - Corballis | :: | 6 |
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| 1976 | - | On the nature of language - Chomsky | :: | 5 |
| 1988 | - | On the Proper Treatment of Connectionism - Smolensky | :: | 5 |
| 1978 | - | Optimization Theory in Evolution - Maynard-Smith | :: | 5 |
| 1980 | - | A Theory of Syntactic Recognition for Natural Language - Marcus | :: | 5 |
| 1993 | - | Language and Thought - Chomsky | :: | 5 |
| 1991 | - | Symbols and Syntax: A Darwinian Approach to Language Development - Bates,Thal,Marchman | :: | 5 |
| 1990 | - | Recursive Distributed Representations - Pollack | :: | 5 |
| 1989 | - | Finite state automata and simple recurrent networks - Cleeremans,Servan-Schreiber,McClelland | :: | 5 |
| 1992 | - | Linguistic Experience Alters Phonetic Perception in Infants by 6 Months of Age - Kuhl,Williams,Lacerda,Stevens,Lindblom | :: | 4 |
| 1990 | - | Learning and Applying Contextual Constraints in Sentence Comprehension - John,St,McClelland | :: | 4 |
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| 1993 | - | From Rote Learning to System Building - Plunkett,Marchman | :: | 4 |
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| 1991 | - | Graded State Machines: The Representation of Temporal Contingencies in Simple Recurrent Networks - Servan-Schreiber,Cleeremans,McClelland | :: | 4 |
| 1994 | - | Generalization and connectionist language learning - Christiansen,Chater | :: | 4 |
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| 1994 | - | Systematicity in Connectionist Language Learning - Hadley | :: | 3 |
| 1988 | - | Language and the Problems of Knowledge - Chomsky | :: | 3 |
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| 1991 | - | Characteristics of Connectionist Knowledge Representation - MacLennan | :: | 3 |
| 1994 | - | Generativity within language and other cognitive domains - Bloom | :: | 3 |
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| 1990 | - | Syntactic transformations on Distributed Representations - Chalmers | :: | 3 |
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| 1989 | - | Implicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge - Reber | :: | 3 |
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| 1987 | - | The Special-Mechanisms Debate in Speech Research: categorization Tests on Animals and Infants - Kuhl | :: | 3 |
| 1987 | - | PARSNIP: A Connectionist Network that Learns Natural Language Grammar from Exposure to Natural Language Sentences - Hanson,Kegl | :: | 3 |
| 1990 | - | Compositionality: A Connectionist Variation on a Classical Theme - van Gelder | :: | 3 |
| 1990 | - | Genetic Basis of Grammar Defect - Gopnik | :: | 2 |
| 1991 | - | Syntactic Category Formation with Vector Space Grammars - Stolcke | :: | 2 |
| 1990 | - | Speech and Language Defects - Vargha-Khadem,Passingham | :: | 2 |
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| 1983 | - | How are Grammars Represented - Stabler | :: | 2 |
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| 1986 | - | Mechanisms of sentence processing - McClelland,Kawamoto | :: | 2 |
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| 1992 | - | PDP Learnability and Innate Knowledge of Language - Kirsh | :: | 2 |
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| 1990 | - | Autonomy, Implementation and Cognitive Architecture: A Reply to Fodor and Pylyshyn - Chater,Oaksford | :: | 2 |
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| 1980 | - | The ATN and the Sausage Machine: Which One is Baloney - Wanner | :: | 2 |
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| 1985 | - | On Not Being Led up the Garden Path: The Use of Context by the Psychological Syntax Processor - Crain,Steedman | :: | 2 |
| 1987 | - | Generative Grammar - Horrocks | :: | 2 |
| 1990 | - | Why Fodor and Pylyshyn were Wrong: The Simplest Refutation - Chalmers | :: | 2 |
| 1990 | - | A dynamic-net model of human speech recognition - Norris | :: | 2 |
| 1994 | - | Artificial Evolution of Syntactic Aptitude - Batali | :: | 2 |
| 1991 | - | Incremental Learning, or The Importance of Starting Small - Elman | :: | 2 |
| 1991 | - | A connectionist model of word recognition in continuous speech - Shillcock,Levy,Chater | :: | 2 |
| 1993 | - | Behavioral and Magnetoencephalographic Correlates of Plasticity in the Adult Human Brain - Ramachandran | :: | 2 |
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| 1988 | - | Recursive Auto-Associative Memory: Devising Compositional Distributed Representations - Pollack | :: | 2 |
| 1979 | - | Panselectionist Pitfalls in Parker & Gibson's Model of the Evolution of Intelligence - Gould | :: | 2 |
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| 1986 | - | Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition - Rumelhart,McClelland,Rumelhart | :: | 2 |
| 1985 | - | Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar - Gazdar,Klein,Pullum,Sag | :: | 2 |
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| 1987 | - | The Constituent Structure of Connectionist Mental States: A Reply to Fodor and Pylyshyn - Smolensky | :: | 1 |
| 1989 | - | Learning to Respond to Structures in Time - Chater | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | Representing Aspects of Language - Port,van Gelder | :: | 1 |
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| 1987 | - | Connectionism: Is it a Paradigm Shift for Psychology - Schneider | :: | 1 |
| 1990 | - | Basic Methods of Probabilistic Context Free Grammars - Jelinek,Jelinek,Mercer | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | The `Explicit-Implicit' Distinction - Hadley | :: | 1 |
| 1994 | - | Genes, Phenes and the Baldwin E#ect: Learning and Evolution in a Simulated Population - French,Messinger | :: | 1 |
| 1988 | - | On Language and Connectionism - Pinker,Prince | :: | 1 |
| 1994 | - | Immediate E#ects of Discourse and Semantic Content in Syntactic Processing: Evidence from Eye-Tracking - Spivey-Knowlton,Tanenhaus | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | Minimal Rationalism - Clark | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | Connectionist Representation Techniques - Sharkey | :: | 1 |
| 1988 | - | Interaction with Context in Human Sentence Processing - Altmann,Steedman | :: | 1 |
| 1994 | - | Ever since Language and Learning: Afterthoughts on the Piaget-Chomsky Debate - Piattelli--Palmerini | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | Functional Compositionality and Soft Preference Rules - Sharkey | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | Learning the past tense in a recurrent network: Aquiring the mapping from meanings to sounds - Cottrell,Plunkett | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | Learning Syntactic Categories: A Statistical Approach - Finch,Chater | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | Contingent Frequency E#ect in Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution - Juliano,Tanenhaus | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | Classical Questions, Radical Answers: Connectionism and the Structure of Mental Representations - van Gelder | :: | 1 |
| 1990 | - | Deducing Linguistic Structure from the Statistics of Large Corpora - Brill,Marcus,Brill,Santorini | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | Individual Di#erences in Syntactic Processing: The Role of Working Memory - King,Just | :: | 1 |
| 1985 | - | Linguistics and Philosophy - Shieber | :: | 1 |
| 1990 | - | On the Primay of the Implicit: Comment on Perruchet and Pacteau - Reber | :: | 1 |
| 1990 | - | When is Information Explicitly Represented - Kirsh | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | Neuroiology of Cognitive and Language Processing: E#ects of Erly Experience - Neville | :: | 1 |
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| 1986 | - | The Independence of Syntactic Processing - Ferreira,Clifton | :: | 1 |
| 1990 | - | Connectionism, Classical Cognitive Science and Experimental Psychology - Oaksford,Chater,Stenning | :: | 1 |
| 1990 | - | The Cooperative Language Processors: Semantic Influences in an Automatic Syntax - Perfetti | :: | 1 |
| 1989 | - | Implicit Memory and Language Acquisition - Durkin | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | Bootstraping Syntactic Categories by Unsupervised Learning - Finch,Chater | :: | 1 |
| 1989 | - | Connectionism and Intentionality - Bechtel | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | Can Crain Constrain the Constraints - Slobin | :: | 1 |
| 1985 | - | Computationally Relevant Properties of natural Languages and Their Grammars - Gazdar,Pullum | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | Endangered Languages - England,England | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | Grammatical Structure and Distributed Representations - Elman | :: | 1 |
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| 1994 | - | Systematicity in Connectionist Language Learning - Niklasson,Niklasson | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | Alternatives to Linguistic Arbitrariness - Harris | :: | 1 |
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| 1992 | - | Connectionism, Learning and Meaning - Christiansen,Chater | :: | 1 |
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| 1991 | - | Mother Nature Versus the Walking Encyclopedia: A Western Drama - Dennett | :: | 1 |
| 1980 | - | A Central Processor Hierarchically Structured Material: Evidence from Broca's Aphasia - Grossman | :: | 1 |
| 1988 | - | Implicit Learning: Robustness in the Face of Psychiatric Disorders - Abrams,Reber | :: | 1 |
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| 1990 | - | English Word Grammar - Hudson | :: | 1 |
| 1990 | - | Connectionism and Language Processing - van Gelder | :: | 1 |
| 1989 | - | The Learnability and Acquisition of of the Dative Alternation in English - Gropen,Pinker,Hollander,Goldberg,Wilson | :: | 1 |
| 1985 | - | Visual Perception, Physiology, Psychology, and Ecology - Bruce,Green | :: | 1 |
| 1990 | - | Connectionism and the Problem of Systematicity - Fodor,McLaughlin | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | Representation in Perception and Cognition: Connectionist Affordances - Hatfield | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | If You've Got it, Why not Flaunt it - Hauser | :: | 1 |
| 1989 | - | Learning Sequential Structure in Simple Recurrent Networks in D - Servan-Schreiber,Cleeremans,McClelland | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | Connectionism and the Issues of Compositionality and Systematicity - Niklasson,Sharkey | :: | 1 |
| 1990 | - | Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology - Kolb,Whishaw | :: | 1 |
| 1986 | - | Serial order: a parallel distributed approach - Jordan | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | Human Adults and Human Infants Show a ``Perceptual Magnet E#ect'' for the Prototypes of Speech Categories, Monkeys Do Not - Kuhl | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | Is Connectionism Compatible with Rationalism - Narayanan | :: | 1 |
| 1982 | - | The Processing of Unbounded Dependencies in Swedish - Ejerhed | :: | 1 |
| 1980 | - | Rules and Representations New York: Columbia University Press - Chomsky | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | An Evolutionary Context for the Cognitive Unconscious - Reber | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | Forcing Simple Recurrent Networks to Encode Context - Maskara,Noetzel | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | Two Notions of Implicit Rules - Davies | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | Neurobiology and Language Acquisition: Continuity and Identity - Jacobs | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | What is the ``D'' in ``PDP'' - van Gelder | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | Connectionism and the Mind: An Introduction to Parallel Distributed Processing in Networks - Bechtel,Abrahamsen | :: | 1 |
| 1989 | - | How Not to Become Confused about Linguistics - George | :: | 1 |
| 1994 | - | Language and Connectionism: The Developing Interface - Seidenberg | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | Distributional Information and the Acquisition of Linguistic Categories: A Statistical Approach - Redington,Chater,Redington | :: | 1 |
| 1990 | - | Parsing and Comprehension: A Multipleconstraint View - Taraban,McClelland | :: | 1 |
| 1994 | - | Implicit Learning of an Artificial Context-free grammar - Poletiek | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | Nature, Nuture and PDP: Preposterous Developmental Postulates - Karmilo | :: | 1 |
| 1989 | - | Rules and Connections in Human Language - Prince,Pinker | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | Infant Speech: A Window on Psycholinguistic Development - Kuhl | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | Linguistic Modularity - Smith,Tsimpli | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | Debatable Constraints - Wasow | :: | 1 |
| 1990 | - | Computational Neuroethology: A Provisional Manifesto - Cli | :: | 1 |
| 1989 | - | Unburdening the Language of Thought - Barwise | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | Connectionism, Explicit Rules, and Symbolic Manipulation - Hadley | :: | 1 |
| 1988 | - | The Rat's Simultaneous Anticipation of Remote Events and Current Events Can be Sustained by Memories Alone - Capaldi,Miller | :: | 1 |
| 1987 | - | Combinatory Grammars and Parasitic Gaps - Steedman | :: | 1 |
| 1988 | - | Human Cognitive Neuropsychology - Ellis,Young | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | Connectionism and Three Levels of Nativism - Ramsey,Stich | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | ERSP: A Distributed Connectionist Parser that Uses Embedded Sequences to Represent Structure - Sopena | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | Processing Constraints on Grammar - Pickering,Chater | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | Nesting Cups and metatools in Chimpanzees - Matsuzawa | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | Functional Plasticity in the Cerebral Cortex: Mechanisms of Improved Perceptual Abilities and Skill Acquisition - Recanzone,Merzenich | :: | 1 |
| 1989 | - | Evolution, Selection and Cognition: From ``Learning'' to Parameter Setting in Biology and in the Study of Language - Piattelli--Palmerini | :: | 1 |
| 1994 | - | The Generation of Generativity: a response to Bloom - Corballis | :: | 1 |
| 1978 | - | A Computational Account of Some Constraints on Language - Marcus | :: | 1 |
| 1982 | - | A Myth about Centre-embedding - De Roeck,Johnson,King,Rosner,Sampson,Varile | :: | 1 |