Learning How to Learn Words: An Associative Crane

Becoming a Word Learner: A Debate on Lexical Acquisition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Smith, Linda B ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

A priori constraints; Associative mechanisms; Count nouns; Linda B. Smith; Shape bias; Word learning

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EID: 84940014988     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195130324.003.003     Document Type: Chapter

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