Probabilistic and distributional approaches to language acquisition

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 273-281

  Redington, Martin ^b   Chater, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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EID: 0000859192     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6613(97)01081-4     Document Type: Review

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