Pragmatic directions about language use: Offers of words and relations

Language in Society

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 181-212

  Clark, Eve V ^a   Wong, Andrew D W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child directed speech; Language acquisition; Word meanings

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036556723     PISSN: 00474045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047404501020152     Document Type: Review

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