Lexical categories at the edge of the word

Cognitive Science

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 184-221

  Onnis, Luca ^a   Christiansen, Morten H ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Computational models; Cross linguistic corpus analyses; Language acquisition; Lexical categories; Neural networks; Phonological bootstrapping; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 41349097330     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03640210701703691     Document Type: Article

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