Functional Biases in Language Learning: Evidence from Word Order and Case-Marking Interaction

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 318-323

  Fedzechkina, Maryia ^a   Jaeger, T Florian ^a   Newport, Elissa L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

acquisition biases; case marking; Language acquisition; language universals; word order

Indexed keywords

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

ACQUISITION BIAS; CASE-MARKING; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; LANGUAGE LEARNING; LANGUAGE UNIVERSAL; SHAPE GRAMMARS; TRADE OFF; UNCERTAINTY; WORD ORDERS; WORD-ORDER LANGUAGES;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84878925010     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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