Integrating constraints for learning word-referent mappings

Cognition

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 133-143

  Monaghan, Padraic ^a   Mattock, Karen ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child directed speech; Corpus analysis; Cross situational learning; Distributional information; Multiple cue integration; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; WORD RECOGNITION;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856785253     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.12.010     Document Type: Article

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