Characterizing linguistic structure with mutual information

British Journal of Psychology

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 291-304

  Pothos, Emmanuel M ^a   Juola, Patrick ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; VISION;

COGNITION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34249706857     PISSN: 20448295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/000712606X122760     Document Type: Article

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