Children's production of unfamiliar word sequences is predicted by positional variability and latent classes in a large sample of child-directed speech

Cognitive Science

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 465-488

  Matthews, Danielle ^a   Bannard, Colin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Corpus analysis; Information theory; Language acquisition; Latent classes; Statistical learning; Syntax; Usage based models of language

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953180946     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009.01091.x     Document Type: Article

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