Behavioral and computational aspects of language and its acquisition

Physics of Life Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 253-277

  Edelman, Shimon ^a   Waterfall, Heidi ^a,b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational cognitive linguistics; Language acquisition; Machine learning; Psycholinguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 36049041932     PISSN: 15710645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2007.10.001     Document Type: Review

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