A computational study of cross-situational techniques for learning word-to-meaning mappings

Cognition

Volumn 61, Issue 1-2 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 39-91

  Siskind, Jeffrey Mark ^a,b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHILD; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECALL;

ALGORITHMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MENTAL RECALL; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0030254719     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0010-0277(96)00728-7     Document Type: Article

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