Dynamic self-organization and early lexical development in children

Cognitive Science

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 581-612

  Li, Ping ^a   Zhao, Xiaowei ^a   MacWhinney, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DevLex; Language acquisition; Neural networks; Self organization; Vocabulary spurt; Word learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447259374     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15326900701399905     Document Type: Article

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