A model of Frame and Verb Compliance in language acquisition

Neurocomputing

Volumn 70, Issue 13-15, 2007, Pages 2273-2287

  Desai, Rutvik ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectionism; Language acquisition; Syntactic frames; Verb compliance; Verb learning

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA STRUCTURES; FORMAL LANGUAGES; WORD PROCESSING;

CONNECTIONISM; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; SYNTACTIC FRAMES; VERB COMPLIANCE; VERB LEARNING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPREHENSION; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MATURATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 34249665747     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2006.02.027     Document Type: Article

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