Analyzing language samples of Spanish-English bilingual children for the automated prediction of language dominance

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 367-395

  Solorio, T ^a   Sherman, M ^e   Liu, Y ^b   Bedore, L M ^c   Pena E D ^c   Iglesias, A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCHERS; COMMUNICATION DISORDERS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 79958841915     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: 14698110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1351324910000252     Document Type: Article

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