A modular connectionist model
covers all six established phenomena in transitivity development in children
and predicts a new effect. In contrast, a symbolic-rule hypothesis based on
logic captures none of these effects and is directly contradicted by one of
them. In the model a constraint-satisfaction network generates a response based
on input from a feed-forward comparison module and the particular question
asked. Cycles to saturate the response module implement response times.
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