The learner as statistician: Three principles of computational success in language acquisition

Developmental Science

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 409-411

  Soderstrom, Melanie ^a   Conwell, Erin ^b   Feldman, Naomi ^c   Morgan, James ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 63749085581     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00827.x     Document Type: Article

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