The representation employed in this article builds on a specification used in our earlier work (Schütze 1993(Schütze , 1995Schütze and Walsh 2008), motivated by Exemplar Theory (Hintzman 1986;Nosofsky 1986;Pierrehumbert 2001), where rich exemplar representations facilitated the acquisition of local grammatical knowledge and outperformed a categorical representation in the same task.
each word was represented in terms of its immediate left and right neighborhood context.