Language acquisition in a self-organising neural network model

Connectionist Models of Development: Developmental Processes in Real and Artificial Neural Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 94-123

  Li, Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203494028     Document Type: Chapter

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