Robust Language Acquisition – an Emergent Consequence of Language as a Complex Adaptive System

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3512-3517

  Ellis, Nick C ^a   O’Donnell, Matthew Brook ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Language as a Complex Adaptive System; Syntax semantics interface; Usage based models; Verb Argument Constructions; Zipf s law

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; FORM SEMANTICS; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION DEVICES; LANGUAGE AS A COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEM; STATISTICAL LEARNING; SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFACE; USAGE-BASED MODEL; VERB ARGUMENT CONSTRUCTION; ZIPF’S LAW;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84873722816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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