Language disorders as a window on universal grammar: An abstract theory of agreement for IP, DP, and V-PP

Brain and Language

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 378-397

  Roeper, Thomas ^a   Ramos, Eliane ^a   Seymour, Harry ^a   Abdul Karim, Lamya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Agreement; Disorders; Functional categories; Learnability

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; THEORY;

EID: 0035009673     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.2000.2409     Document Type: Article

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