Can Rational Models Be Good Accounts of Developmental Change? The Case of Language Development at Two Time Scales

Advances in Child Development and Behavior

Volumn 43, Issue , 2012, Pages 95-124

  Dawson, Colin R ^a   Gerken, LouAnn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian learning; Hebbian learning; Language development; Phonetics; Phonology; Syntax; Word learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866755393     PISSN: 00652407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-397919-3.00004-6     Document Type: Chapter

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