Context-freeness Revisited

Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1664-1669

  Zuidema, Willem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

animal experiments; artificial language learning; Context free languages; formal language theory

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS; ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE LEARNING; CONTEXT-FREE LANGUAGES; FORMAL LANGUAGE THEORY; LANGUAGE LEARNING; LEARN+; TEST PHASIS; TRAINING PHASIS;

CONTEXT FREE LANGUAGES;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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