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Science 7 January 2000:
Vol. 287. no. 5450, pp. 47 - 48
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5450.47
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LANGUAGE:
Why Do Kids Say Goed and Brang?

A review by James L. McClelland and Mark S. Seidenberg

Words and Rules The Ingredients of Language
Steven Pinker
Basic Books, New York, 1999. 362 pp. $26, C$39.50. ISBN 0-465-07269-0.

Pinker presents a popular exposition of his research into how children learn language. Although his account, focused on English past-tense verb forms, is engaging and informative, our reviewers argue that it does not grant neural network models the importance they warrant.
James L. McClelland is at the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, and the Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, 115 Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. E-mail: jlm@cnbc.cmu.edu. Mark S. Seidenberg is in the Neuroscience Program, and the Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, 3614 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520, USA. E-mail: marks@gizmo.usc.edu

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