An argument from acquisition: Comparing English metrical stress representations by how learnable they are from child-directed speech
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An argument from acquisition: Comparing English metrical stress representations by how learnable they are from child-directed speech
It has long been recognized that there is a natural dependence between theories of knowledge representation and theories of knowledge acquisition, with the idea that the right knowledge representation enables acquisition to happen as reliably as it does. Given this, a reasonable criterion for a theory of knowledge representation is that it be useful for acquisition, particularly in non-trivial ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Language Acquisition
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1048-9223,1532-7817
DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2016.1194422