Emergence of grammatical constructions: Evidence from simulation and grounded agent experiments

Connection Science

Volumn 17, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 289-306

  Dominey, Peter Ford ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES COGNITIVES   (France)

Author keywords

Grammatical construction; Language; Neural network; Sensorimotor sequence

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION GRAMMAR; GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTION; GROUNDED SYSTEMS; LANGUAGE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL; POTENTIAL UTILITY; SENSORIMOTOR SEQUENCE; SENTENCE PROCESSING;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 27744480185     PISSN: 09540091     EISSN: 13600494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540090500270714     Document Type: Review

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