Case, inflection and subject licensing in child Catalan and Spanish

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 119-155

  Grinstead, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES;

EID: 0034133234     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000999004043     Document Type: Article

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