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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch. 2011 May 26;42(4):580–591. doi: 10.1044/0161-1461(2011/10-0041)

Figure 2.

Figure 2

A representation of Rummelhart and McClelland’s early (1986) connectionist model of how a verb stem (such as “show”) can be related to production of the past tense form (“showed”) through weighted connections between two layers of neuron-like units. Reprinted with permission from RETHINKING INNATENESS: A CONNECTIONIST PERSPECTIVE ON DEVELOPMENT, edited by Jeffrey Elman, Elizabeth Bates, Mark H. Johnson, Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Domenico Parisi, and Kim Plunkett, published by MIT Press.