Computational Modeling for Language Acquisition: A Tutorial With Syntactic Islands.
Purpose: Given the growing prominence of computational modeling in the acquisition research community, we present a tutorial on how to use computational modeling to investigate learning strategies that underlie the acquisition process. This is useful for understanding both typical and atypical lingu...
| Published in: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 58; no. 3; pp. 740 - 754 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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