Categorical structure among shared features in networks of early-learned nouns

Cognition

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 381-396

  Hills, Thomas T ^a   Maouene, Mounir ^b   Maouene, Josita ^c   Sheya, Adam ^c   Smith, Linda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Abdelmalek Essaadi University   (Morocco)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clusters; Early semantic network; Feature correlations; Perceptual and functional features; Percolation algorithm

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; HUMAN; LEARNING; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY; WORD LIST RECALL;

ALGORITHMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 68049123108     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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