The paper explores the connectionist theory and methods, introducing the basic concepts in connectionism, its application in language acquisition, and the new insights to linguistic research.

• 本文探讨近年来对认知科学产生了重大影响的联结主义理论及方法,介绍联结主义的基本概念,在语言学及语言习得中的应用,以及它给语言研究提供的新思路。