Examining the Acquisition of Phonological Word Forms with Computational Experiments

Language and Speech

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 493-527

  Vitevitch, Michael S ^a   Storkel, Holly L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

connectionist model; neighborhood density; neural network; word learning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PHONETICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84888370927     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0023830912460513     Document Type: Article

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