A unified model of early word learning: Integrating statistical and social cues

Neurocomputing

Volumn 70, Issue 13-15, 2007, Pages 2149-2165

  Yu, Chen ^a   Ballard, Dana H ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Computational modeling; Language development; Social cue; Statistical learning; Word learning

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL CUE; STATISTICAL LEARNING; WORD LEARNING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MENTAL TASK; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 34249701400     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2006.01.034     Document Type: Article

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