Computational models in the debate over language learnability

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 55-80

  Kaplan, Frederic ^a   Oudeyer, Pierre Yves ^b   Bergen, Benjamin ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b SONY COMPUTER SCIENCE LABORATORY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Active learning; Embodiment; Generative models; Language acquisition; Poverty of stimulus; Selection for learnability; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949143970     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.544     Document Type: Article

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