Acquiring and processing verb argument structure: Distributional learning in a miniature language

2007/07/31 by Elizabeth Wonnacott, Elissa L. Newport, Michael K. Tanenhaus · 32 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · Computer Science · #Language Development and Disorders #Language and cultural evolution #Speech and dialogue systems

paper · doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2007.04.002

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