On the nature of phonological cues in the acquisition of French gender categories: Evidence from instance-based learning models

Lingua

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 879-900

  Matthews, Clive ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Category learning; French gender; Gender assignment; Instance based models; TiMBL

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649186485     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2009.06.007     Document Type: Article

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