Modeling the effect of cross-language ambiguity on human syntax acquisition

Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, CoNLL 2000 and of the 2nd Learning Language in Logic Workshop, LLL 2000 - Held in cooperation with ICGI 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 61-66

  Sakas, William Gregory ^a  

^a City University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MODELING LANGUAGES;

ACQUISITION MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; CROSS LANGUAGES; HUMAN LANGUAGE; LINGUISTIC DESCRIPTIONS; MODELING BEHAVIOUR; NATIVE LANGUAGE; SYNTAX ACQUISITION;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 84885517711     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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