Syntactic trees and small-world networks: Syntactic development as a dynamical process

Adaptive Behavior

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 427-442

  Barceló Coblijn, Lluís ^a   Corominas Murtra, Bernat ^b   Gomila, Antoni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

complex systems; Language acquisition; small world networks; syntactic development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870819504     PISSN: 10597123     EISSN: 17412633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059712312455439     Document Type: Article

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