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关于动词过去时的规则形式和不规则形式习得、表征和处理过程的争论持续了20多年,并且吸引了语言学家、心理学家、神经科学家、计算机学家等的关注。本文回顾了双方争论的来龙去脉,讨论了双方争论的三大焦点问题,即语言处理需要规则还是联结,规则形式和不规则形式的处理是由相同的心理机制还是两个不同的心理机制来完成的,究竟应该将大脑视为模块的符号处理系统还是多元的人工神经网络。这场争论的意义在于通过对过去时表征和加工过程的研究来发现语言甚至心智的运作过程,检验认知科学中传统的符号主义和新兴的联结主义。
The controversy over regular, irregular forms of acquisition, characterization and processing of the past verbs lasted for more than 20 years and attracted the attention of linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, computer scientists and others. This article reviews the ins and outs of the two sides’ disputes and discusses the three major issues of debate between the two sides: whether language processing needs rules or links, and whether rules and irregular forms are handled by the same psychological mechanism or by two different psychological mechanisms , Should the brain be treated as a modular symbolic processing system or as a multivariate artificial neural network. The significance of this argument lies in the discovery of the functioning of language and even of mind by studying the characterization and processing of the past tense and examining the traditional semiotics and emerging nexus in cognitive science.