Rules and construction effects in learning the argument structure of verbs

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 797-821

  Demuth, Katherine ^a   Machobane, Malillo ^b   Moloi, Francina ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LESOTHO   (Lesotho)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CHILD; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS;

AFRICA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0344253951     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000903005804     Document Type: Article

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