Uncovering the richness of the stimulus: Structure dependence and indirect statistical evidence

Cognitive Science

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1007-1028

  Reali, Florencia ^a   Christiansen, Morten H ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus analysis; Distributional information; Language acquisition; Neural networks; Poverty of stimulus

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645100090     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15516709cog0000_28     Document Type: Article

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