Modelling early language acquisition skills: Towards a general statistical learning mechanism

EACL 2009 - 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-9

  Aimetti, Guillaume ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; INTERNAL REPRESENTATION; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; REPEATING PATTERNS; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL LEARNING; STATISTICAL MECHANISMS; STATISTICAL REGULARITY;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MODAL ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

EID: 84891602499     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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