Subjectless sentences in child Danish

Cognition

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 35-72

  Hamann, Cornelia ^a   Plunkett, Kim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Danish; Language; Sentence subject

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS;

EID: 0032196903     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(98)00059-6     Document Type: Article

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