Cryptotype, Overgeneralization and Competition: A Connectionist Model of the Learning of English Reversive Prefixes

Connection Science

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-30

  Li, Ping ^a   MacWhinney, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectionist model; Cryptotype; Language acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030521371     PISSN: 09540091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/095400996116938     Document Type: Article

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