Examining the Acquisition of Phonological Word Forms with Computational Experiments.

It has been hypothesized that known words in the lexicon strengthen newly formed representations of novel words, resulting in words with dense neighborhoods being learned more quickly than words with sparse neighborhoods. Tests of this hypothesis in a connectionist network showed that words with den...

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Published in:Language & Speech Vol. 56; no. 4; pp. 493 - 528
Main Authors: Vitevitch, Michael S, Storkel, Holly L
Format: algorithm equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. Dec2013
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