How the Poverty of the Stimulus Solves the Poverty of the Stimulus

NIPS 2002: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 43-50

  Zuidema, Willem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING PROBLEM;

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