Syntactic structure and artificial grammar learning: The learnability of embedded hierarchical structures

Cognition

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 763-774

  de Vries, Meinou H ^a   Monaghan, Padraic ^b   Knecht, Stefan ^a   Zwitserlood, Pienie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial grammar learning; Centre embeddings; Context free grammar; Finite state grammar; Hierarchical structure learning; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL GRAMMAR LEARNING; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 41349102962     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.09.002     Document Type: Article

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