Perceptual and memory constraints on language acquisition

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 348-353

  Endress, Ansgar D ^a   Nespor, Marina ^b   Mehler, Jacques ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCHOR POINT; BASIC MECHANISM; BASIC PROPERTIES; COGNITIVE PROCESS; GRAMMAR LEARNING; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; MEMORY CONSTRAINTS; NATURAL GRAMMARS; STRESS ASSIGNMENT;

LINGUISTICS;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; EXPERIMENT; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; PERCEPTION; STATISTICS; STRESS; SYMBOLISM;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 68249086624     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2009.05.005     Document Type: Article

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