Integrating Connectionist Learning and Dynamical Systems Processing: Case Studies in Speech and Lexical Development

Toward a Unified Theory of Development Connectionism and Dynamic System Theory Re-Consider

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  McMurray, Bob ^a   Horst, Jessica S ^b   Toscano, Joseph C ^a   Samuelson, Larissa K ^a  

^a E11 SSH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Connectionism; Dynamic systems theory; Early word learning; Language acquisition; Speech category learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921613003     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195300598.003.0011     Document Type: Chapter

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