Children's first verbs in Tzeltal: Evidence for an early verb category

Linguistics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 713-754

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EID: 0011679134     PISSN: 00243949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ling.1998.36.4.713     Document Type: Article

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