The distributional structure of grammatical categories in speech to young children

Cognitive Science

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 393-424

  Mintz, Toben H ^a   Newport, Elissa L ^b   Bever, Thomas G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributional structure; Grammatical categories; Young children

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005584483     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15516709cog2604_1     Document Type: Article

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