The combinatorial-connectionist debate and the pragmatics of adjectives

Lahav, Ran

doi:10.1075/pc.1.1.06lah

Article published In: Pragmatics & Cognition
Vol. 1:1 (1993) ► pp.71–88

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The combinatorial-connectionist debate and the pragmatics of adjectives

Ran Lahav | Southern Methodist University, Dallas

Published online: 1 January 1993

https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.1.1.06lah

Within the controversy between the combinatorial and the connectionist approaches to cognition it has been argued that our semantic and syntactic capacities provide evidence for the combinatorial approach. In this paper I offer a counter-weight to this argument by pointing out that the same type of considerations, when applied to the pragmatics of adjectives, provide evidence for connectionism.

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