Categorizing words using 'frequent frames': What cross-linguistic analyses reveal about distributional acquisition strategies

Developmental Science

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 396-406

  Chemla, Emmanuel ^a   Mintz, Toben H ^b   Bernal, Savita ^a   Christophe, Anne ^a,c  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Institut Cochin   (France)

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ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 63849280595     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00825.x     Document Type: Article

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