Why do children learn to say "Broke"? A model of learning the past tense without feedback

Cognition

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 123-155

  Taatgen, Niels A ^a   Anderson, John R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Cognitive development; Cognitive models; Language; Past tense

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; HUMAN ENGINEERING; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

VERBS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VERBAL MEMORY;

CHILD; COGNITION; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; LEARNING; NERVE NET; SEMANTICS; TIME PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0036890320     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(02)00176-2     Document Type: Article

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