Language breakdown and linguistic theory: A tutorial overview

Lingua

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 95-143

  Levy, Yonata ^a   Kavé, Gitit ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Agrammatism; Argument structure; Functional hierarchy; Language breakdown; Modularity, syndromes; Processing; SLI; Thematic roles; Williams syndrome

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001936054     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-3841(98)00023-0     Document Type: Article

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