Learning Nouns and Adjectives: A Connectionist Account

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 13, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 269-306

  Gasser, Michael ^a   Smith, Linda B ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0032380280     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/016909698386537     Document Type: Article

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