Monolingual and bilingual children's use of the mutual exclusivity constraint

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 3-24

  Davidson, Denise ^a   Jergovic, Diana ^b   Imami, Zubia ^b   Theodos, Violet ^b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NONE

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0031064353     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000996002917     Document Type: Article

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