A Fresh Look at Vocabulary Spurts

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1134-1139

  Dandurand, Frédéric ^a   Shultz, Thomas R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

automatic maxima detection; functional data analysis; vocabulary spurts

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC MAXIMUM DETECTION; FUNCTIONAL DATA ANALYSIS; LINEAR GROWTH; VOCABULARY SPURT;

DATA HANDLING;

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