The Abstract Nature of Syntactic Representations: Consequences for a Theory of Learning

Blackwell Handbook of Language Development

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 277-303

  Lidz, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Computations; Constraint learning; Learning theory; Syntactic knowledge; Syntactic representations

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EID: 43749085820     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470757833.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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