The miracle year: From basic structure to social communication

Theoretical and Computational Models of Word Learning: Trends in Psychology and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 153-171

  Bortfeld, Heather ^a,b   Shaw, Kathleen Elizabeth ^a   Depowski, Nicole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; AUDITION;

BASIC STRUCTURE; COMPLEX PROCESSES; CORTICAL BLOOD FLOWS; FETAL HEART RATE; LANGUAGE LEARNING; MULTIPLE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84877331342     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2973-8.ch007     Document Type: Chapter

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