Exploring the Robustness of Cross-Situational Learning Under Zipfian Distributions

Cognitive Science

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 726-739

  Vogt, Paul ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cross situational learning; Lexicon learning time; Referential uncertainty; Word learning; Zipf's law

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); UNCERTAINTY; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84860591211     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2011.1226.x     Document Type: Article

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