Adalynn Preston

English

26 March, 19:24

Sejnowski rejected the usual top-down approach to reproducing human speech. He threw out the fat dictionaries of pronunciation and programs brimming with the rules of phonetics and the tedious list of exceptions to all the previous rules, which had no rhyme or reason. Instead, he replaced all this with a surprisingly simple neural circuit.

What is the author's purpose for including this statement?

to prove Sejnowski's credentials

to clarify how linguists teach speech

to criticize robots with neural circuits

to praise Sejnowski's innovation