Empirical tests of the gradual learning algorithm

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 45-86

  Boersma, Paul ^a   Hayes, Bruce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Finnish; Ilokano; Learnability; Optimality theory; Variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345798942     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/002438901554586     Document Type: Article

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