Connectionist Models of Language

Traditional models of language processing process language by rule. This approach faces two p. oblems. First, there are difficulties in using the rules during processing, since often one rule must be pitted against another. In this case traditional approaches face the difficult problem of deciding which rule should win in such cases. Second, there are difficulties in acquiring rules, since it is often hard to know when a rule should be proposed, or when a sentence should be handled as one of many special cases.