Sentence and word complexity

Science

Volumn 333, Issue 6040, 2011, Pages 295-296

  Heinz, Jeffrey ^a   Idsardi, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE; LEARNING;

ALGORITHM; COGNITION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHONETICS; SPEECH;

EID: 79960529556     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1210358     Document Type: Review

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22. This work was supported by the NSF (grant 1035577 to J.H.) and the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (grant 7R01DC005660-07 to W.I.).