A connectionist simulation of the empirical acquisition of grammatical relations

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 1778, Issue , 2000, Pages 175-193

  Morris, William C ^a   Cottrell, Garrison W ^a   Elman, Jeffrey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS;

BOTTOM-UP FASHION; FAMILY RESEMBLANCE; GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; LANGUAGE LEARNING; SIMPLE RECURRENT NETWORKS; SINGLE PARAMETER; TARGET LANGUAGE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84942919763     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/10719871_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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