@article{LCNL:6,
	author={Jelena Mirković and Maryellen C. MacDonald and Mark S. Seidenberg},
	year={2005},
	month={02},
	title={Where does gender come from? Evidence from a complex inflectional system.},
	journal={Language and Cognitive Processes},
	volume={20},
	number={1},
	pages={139-168},
	comments={Much of the debate about the proper treatment of inflectional morphology has focused on English, which has a dreadfully impoverished inflectional system. More complex system, such as the one for Serbian, which encodes number, gender, and case, are difficult to even describe in rules. We present a connectionist model in which acquiring this system is treated as a statistical learning problem. Gender, in this system, is a graded property of words, which is acquired through exposure to a large vocabulary. This contrasts with other theories which employ explicit gender nodes.},
	abstract={Although inflectional morphology has been the focus of considerable debate in recent years, most research has focused on English, which has a much simpler inflectional system than in many other languages. We have been studying Serbian, which has a complex inflectional system that encodes gender, number, and case. The present study investigated the representation of gender. In standard theories of language production, gender is treated as an abstract syntactic feature segregated from semantic and phonological factors. However, we describe corpus analyses and computational models which indicate that gender is correlated with semantic and phonological information, consistent with other cross-linguistic studies. The research supports the idea that gender representations emerge in the course of learning to map from an intended message to a phonological representation. Implications for models of speech production are discussed.},
	language={English},
	keywords={inflectional morphology; syntactic feature; semantic factors; phonological factors; gender; Inflection; Language; Morphology (Language); Phonology; Syntax; Gender Identity},
	issn={01690965},
	URL={http://lcnl.wisc.edu/publications/archive/6.pdf},
}