Phonological and acoustic bases for earliest grammatical category assignment: A cross-linguistic perspective

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 169-201

  Shi, Rushen ^a   Morgan, James L ^b   Allopenna, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NONE

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; SPEECH; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; TURKEY;

EID: 0031994671     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000997003395     Document Type: Article

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