Italian children's understanding of the epistemic and deontic modal verbs dovere (must) and potere (may)

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 87-107

  Bascelli, Elisabetta ^a   Barbieri, Maria Silvia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b Department of Psychology ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036336792     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000901004925     Document Type: Article

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