Acquiring the transitive construction in English: The role of animacy and pronouns

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 605-622

  Dodson, Kelly ^a   Tomasello, Michael ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0032175695     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000998003535     Document Type: Article

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