Distributional information: A powerful cue for acquiring syntactic categories

Cognitive Science

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 425-469

  Redington, Martin ^a   Chater, Nick ^b   Finch, Steven ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

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EID: 0032185401     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15516709cog2204_2     Document Type: Article

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