Models of language development: An 'emergentist' perspective

Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 293-299

  Marchman, Virginia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectionism; Development; Dynamic systems; Language acquisition; Modeling

Indexed keywords

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD REARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0030831578     PISSN: 10804013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2779(1997)3:4<293::AID-MRDD3>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Review

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