--- title: "How to pronounce \"connectionism\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"connectionism\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/Ui38ZzTymDY/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/connectionism" --- # How to pronounce "connectionism" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/kɒnnɛktɪɒnɪsm/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **con·nec·ti·o·nism** ## Meaning & Usage ### NOUN - Any of several fields of psychology that model brain processes in terms of interconnected networks. - *Example*: "What accounts for the cool reaction to the emergence of connectionism in the 1980s on the part of people who study language for a living? […] It is clear that many linguists view connectionism as a revival of the radical empiricist approach that dominated the dark ages in psychology—the behaviourist era." ### Example Sentences - "What accounts for the cool reaction to the emergence of connectionism in the 1980s on the part of people who study language for a living? […] It is clear that many linguists view connectionism as a revival of the radical empiricist approach that dominated the dark ages in psychology—the behaviourist era." - "this this idea of connectionism it doesn't it's weird it's weird that" - "Of course, Connectionism is also known as neural networks and, these days, as deep learning." ### Common Phrases - course connectionism ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (9 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "connectionism" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "that's such a that's a counter-intuitive idea we humans want to think in this logic way this this idea of connectionism it doesn't it's weird it's weird that this is how it all works yeah but let's go back to that cnn right that cnn with all those layers of neuron like processing units that we were talking" - **Watch at 44:34**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui38ZzTymDY&t=2674s) ### Example 2 > "Of course, Connectionism is also known as neural networks and, these days, as deep learning." - **Watch at 14:17**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8J4uefCQMc&t=857s) ### Example 3 > "side those are all details like when you first start the idea that you can get far with this kind of way of thinking that in itself is a profound idea so do you like the term uh connectionism to describe this kind of set of ideas i think it's useful it highlights the notion that the knowledge that the system exploits is" - **Watch at 42:58**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui38ZzTymDY&t=2578s) ### Example 4 > "implicit um you know you don't have access to what the details of the computation were in between you just get the result so that's the other part of connectionism you cannot you don't read the contents of the connections the connections only cause outputs to occur based on inputs yeah it's it's and for us that like" - **Watch at 46:53**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui38ZzTymDY&t=2813s) ### Example 5 > "for many decades and still carries a sort of dream in it right um but we still don't know the answer right it seems like connectionism is really powerful but it also seems like there's this building of knowledge and so how do we how do you square those two like do you think the connections can contain the" - **Watch at 48:26**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui38ZzTymDY&t=2906s) ### Example 6 > "a reflection of something you found in the outside world essentially so this is an idea that's very old uh that was not very popular for instance in the in the 1970s but that had gained a lot of vitality recently with the rise of connectionism in particular deep learning and so today deep learning is the dominant paradigm in ai and i feel like lots of ai researchers are conceptualizing the" - **Watch at 39:53**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUAdj3w3wO4&t=2393s) ### Example 7 > "controlled experiments is that you by construction miss out on the richness and complexity of the real world one thing that so I I was drawn into science by what in those days was called connectionism which is of course that you know what we now called deep learning and at that point in history neural networks were primarily being used in order to model human cognition" - **Watch at 19:34**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t06ajvBtl0&t=1174s) ### Example 8 *Accent: US* > "was emeritus and he was around and he had accumulated disciples and people who built on his system, a kind of early version of connectionism. And then, uh," - **Watch at 3:21**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdMcWcGPiPg&t=201s) ### Example 9 *Accent: US* > "the afternoon session today. Uh and they were the ones who really ushered in the era of connectionism and realizing if you uh put these perceptron-like units" - **Watch at 2:16**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tulk88XnE3I&t=136s) ## How to Pronounce "connectionism" - **Syllables**: con · nec · ti · o · nism - **IPA**: `/kɒnnɛktɪɒnɪsm/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “connectionism”? “connectionism” is pronounced /kɒnnɛktɪɒnɪsm/ (con · nec · ti · o · nism). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “connectionism”? “connectionism” has 5 syllables: con · nec · ti · o · nism. ### What does “connectionism” mean? Any of several fields of psychology that model brain processes in terms of interconnected networks. ### How can I hear “connectionism” used in real sentences? This page has 9 real-world video examples of “connectionism” with synchronized subtitles. 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