Learn locally, act globally: Learning language from variation set cues

Cognition

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 423-430

  Onnis, Luca ^a   Waterfall, Heidi R ^b,c   Edelman, Shimon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment; Artificial grammar learning; Artificial language learning; Corpus analyses; L1; L2; Language acquisition; Short term memory; Variation sets

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; TRAINING;

EID: 56349154574     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.10.004     Document Type: Article

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