Learning to produce passive utterances through discourse

First Language

Volumn 18, Issue 53, 1998, Pages 223-237

  Tomasello, Michael ^a,b   Brooks, Patricia J ^a   Stern, Elissa ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 0037516521     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/014272379801805306     Document Type: Article

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