Questão 96719

Connectionism, also known as Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP), offers a model of language acquisition that contrasts sharply with rule-based, symbolic approaches like Chomsky's. Evaluate the assertions below concerning the connectionist framework.

I. Connectionist models simulate learning by strengthening or weakening the connections between simple processing units (nodes), analogous to neurons, based on statistical regularities in the linguistic input.

II. A key feature of these models is the absence of explicit, pre-programmed grammatical rules; instead, grammatical behavior, such as the formation of the past tense, emerges as a property of the network's learned connection weights.

III. Connectionist networks are particularly poor at modeling the phenomenon of overregularization (e.g., 'goed') because their statistical nature prevents them from capturing rule-like behavior.

Which of the following evaluations is correct?