A word-order database for testing computational models of language acquisition

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 2003-July, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Sakas, William Gregory ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SYNTACTICS;

ABSTRACT LANGUAGES; ACQUISITION MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; DIVERGENTS; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; ORDER PATTERNS; PSYCHOLINGUISTIC MODELS; RUNNING SIMULATIONS; SYNTAX ACQUISITION; WORD ORDERS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 27844558558     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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