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Publications


Democratization of information and knowledge

Gasser, M. (forthcoming). Machine translation and the future of indigenous languages. I Congreso Internacional de Lenguas y Literaturas Indoamericanas, October, 2006, Temuco, Chile. [PDF]
Gasser, M., Hockema, S., & Kane, M. (forthcoming). Information is power: intelligent tools for information access and evaluation. World Forum on Information Society, Tunis, Tunisia. [PDF]

Language acquisition and evolution

Gasser, M., Sethuraman, N., & Hockema. S. (forthcoming). Iconicity in expressives: an empirical investigation. Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language 7: Empirical and Experimental Methods in Cognitive/Functional Research. [PDF]
Smith, L. B. & Gasser, M. (2005). The development of embodied cognition: six lessons from babies. Artificial Life, 11, 13-30. [PDF]
Gasser, M. (2004). The origins of arbitrariness in language. Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 26. [PDF]
Gasser, M. (2002). Computational models of language learning. In D. Chalmers, P. Culicover, R. French, R. Goldstone, & L. Nadel (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. London: Nature Publishing Group. [zipped MS Word]
Regier, T., Corrigan, B., Cabasaan, M., Woodward, A., Gasser, M., Smith, L. (2001). The emergence of words. Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 23. [PDF]
Gasser, M. & Smith, L. B. (1998). Learning nouns and adjectives: a connectionist account. Language and Cognitive Processes, 13, 269-306. [PDF]
Gasser, M. (1997). Transfer in a connectionist model of the acquisition of morphology. In H. Baayen & R. Schroeder (Eds.), Yearbook of Morphology, 1996, pp. 97-116. Dordrecht: Foris. [PDF]
Gasser, M. (1995). Relating comprehension and production in the acquisition of morphology. In C. Koster & F. Wijnen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Groningen Assembly on Language Acquisition, 1995, pp. 197-206. Groningen: Centre for Language and Cognition. [PDF]
Gasser, M. (1994). Acquiring receptive morphology: a connectionist model. Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 32, 279-286. [PDF]
Gasser, M. (1994). Modularity in a connectionist model of morphology acquisition. International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 15, 214-220. [PDF]
Gasser, M. (1992). Learning distributed representations for syllables. Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 14, 396-401. [PDF]
Gasser, M., & Lee, C.-D. (1991). A short-term memory architecture for the learning of morphophonemic rules. In R. P. Lippmann, J. E. Moody, & D. S. Touretzky (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 3, 605-611. San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann. [PDF]
Gasser, M., & Smith, L. B. (1991). The development of the notion of sameness: a connectionist model. Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 13, 719-723. [PDF]
Gasser, M. (1990). Connectionism and universals of second language acquisition. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 12, 179-199. [PDF]

PLAYPEN: learning of relations

Gasser, M. & Colunga, E. (2003). Pattern learning in infants and neural networks. In P. Quinlan (Ed.), Cognitive approaches to developmental psychology. Psychology Press. [PDF]
Gasser, M. & Colunga, E. (2001). Learning relational correlations. International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, 4, 91-96. [PDF]
Gasser, M., Colunga, E. & Smith, L. B. (2001). Developing relations. In Emile van der Zee & Urpo Nikanne (Eds.), Cognitive interfaces: constraints on linking cognitive information, pp. 185-214. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [HTML]
Gasser, M. & Colunga, E. (2000). Babies, variables, and relational correlations. Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 22, 160-165. [PDF]
Gasser, M. & Colunga, E. (1999). How babies learn to find words. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Science , 2, 277-281. [PDF]
Colunga, E & Gasser, M. (1998). Linguistic relativity and word acquisition: a computational approach. Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 20, 244-249. [PDF]
Gasser, M. & Colunga, E. (1998). Where do relations come from? Indiana University Cognitive Science Program, Technical Report #221, January 1998. [PDF]
Gasser, M. & Colunga, E. (1997). Playpen: toward an architecture for modeling the development of spatial cognition. Indiana University Cognitive Science Program, Technical Report #195, June 1997. [HTML], [PDF]
Gasser, M. (1993). The structure grounding problem. Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 15, 149-152. [PDF]

Rhythm in music and language

Gasser, M., Eck, D, & Port, R. F. (1999). Meter as mechanism: a neural network that learns metrical patterns Connection Science, 11, 187-216. [PDF]
Port, R. F., Cummins, F., & Gasser, M. (1995). A dynamic approach to rhythm in language: toward a temporal phonology. In B. Luka and B. Need (Eds.), Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society. 1995. (Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago), pp. 375-397. [PDF]