Computational evidence that frequency trajectory theory does not oppose but emerges from age-of-acquisition theory

Cognitive Science

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1499-1531

  Mermillod, Martial ^a,b   Bonin, Patrick ^b,c   Méot, Alain ^d   Ferrand, Ludovic ^d   Paindavoine, Michel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE MENDÈS FRANCE   (France)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Age of acquisition; Arbitrary mappings; Frequency trajectory; Quasi systematic systematic mappings

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; READING; TIME;

AGE FACTORS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84868318316     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2012.01266.x     Document Type: Article

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