Learning to reason about speakers' alternatives in sentence comprehension: A computational account

Lingua

Volumn 117, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1879-1896

  Hendriks, Petra ^a   van Rijn, Hedderik ^a   Valkenier, Bea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bi directional optimization; Cognitive modelling; Computational simulation; Delay of Principle B Effect; Language acquisition; Optimality Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547843064     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2006.11.008     Document Type: Article

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