A simulation study on word order bias

Interaction Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 51-76

  Gong, Tao ^a   Minett, James W ^b   Wang, William S Y ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Computational simulation; Global order; Local order; Semantics; Word order bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349134914     PISSN: 15720373     EISSN: 15720381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/is.10.1.04gon     Document Type: Article

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