Language evolution and robotics: Issues on symbol grounding and language acquisition

Artificial Cognition Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 176-209

  Vogt, Paul ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-111-7.ch006     Document Type: Chapter

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