Early acquisition of verbs in korean: A cross-linguistic study

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 497-529

  Choi, Soonja ^a   Gopnik, Alison ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; INFANT; KOREA; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; SEMANTICS;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; HUMANS; INFANT; KOREA; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0029385473     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000900009934     Document Type: Article

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