Morphosyntactic forms of African American English used by young children and their caregivers

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 209-231

  Washington, Julie A ^a   Craig, Holly K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 0036026035     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0142716402002035     Document Type: Article

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