On the Acquisition and Evolution of Compositional Languages: Sparse Input and the Productive Creativity of Children

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• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Adaptive Behavior

• Publication date

  2005-12-01

• Fields of study

  Linguistics, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1177/105971230501300403
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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