The role of abstract syntactic knowledge in language acquisition: A reply to Tomasello (2000)

Cognition

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 259-278

  Fisher, Cynthia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstract syntactic knowledge; Language acquisition; Tomasello

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; INFORMATION USE; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; SPEECH;

LANGUAGE ACQUSITION;

SYNTACTICS;

COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

EID: 0036135886     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(01)00159-7     Document Type: Article

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