The learning of first and second person pronouns in English: Network models and analysis

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 545-575

  Oshima Takane, Yuriko ^a   Takane, Yoshio ^b   Shultz, Thomas R ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0033202329     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000999003906     Document Type: Article

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