The lexical restructuring hypothesis and graph theoretic analyses of networks based on random lexicons

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 596-609

  Gruenenfelder, Thomas M ^a   Pisoni, David B ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex systems; Graph theory; Lexical restructuring; Mental lexicon; Spoken word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GRAPH THEORY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING THEORY; LEXICAL RESTRUCTURING HYPOTHESIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHONEME; PHONETICS; SPOKEN WORD RECOGNITION; THEORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 66649138056     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2009/08-0004)     Document Type: Article

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