The learnability of constructed languages reflects typological patterns

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1364-1369

  Tily, Harry J ^a   Frank, Michael C ^b   Jaeger, T Florian ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

artificial grammar; language acquisition; language typology; psycholinguistics; word order

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL GRAMMAR; HUMAN COGNITION; HUMAN LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; LANGUAGE TYPOLOGY; LEARN+; LEARNABILITY; NOVEL METHODS; PSYCHOLINGUISTIC; WORD ORDERS;

EID: 84862022498     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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