In search of meaning The acquisition of semantic structures and morphological systems

Human Cognitive Processing

Volumn 15, Issue , 2006, Pages 109-137

  Li, Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

computational approaches; connectionist networks; corpus analysis; language acquisition; statistical learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 85190672899     PISSN: 13876724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1075/hcp.15.10li     Document Type: Chapter

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