The insufficiency of three types of learning to explain language acquisition

Lingua

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 636-641

  Casillas, Gabriela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Prototype formation; Schema formation; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149101497     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2007.03.007     Document Type: Article

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