In particular, Kirov and Cotterell (2018;henceforth K&C) revisited the past tense debate and showed that modern sequence-based encoder-decoder (ED) models overcome many of the criticisms levelled at Rumelhart and McClelland's model.
these models permit variable-length input and output that represent sequential ordering; can reach near-perfect accuracy on both regular and irregular verbs seen in training; and (using multi-task learning) can effectively generalize phonological rules across different inflections.