Root infinitives in Dutch early child language: An effect of input?

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 629-660

  Wijnen, Frank ^a   Kempen, Masja ^b   Gillis, Steven ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0035496121     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0305000901004809     Document Type: Article

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