The role of derivational morphology in vocabulary acquisition: Get by with a little help from my morpheme friends

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 287-296

  Bertram, Raymond ^a   Laine, Matti ^a   Virkkala, Minna Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Finnish; Frequency; Lexicon; Morphology; Productivity

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; FINLAND; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; FINLAND; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0034540959     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9450.00201     Document Type: Article

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