The role of entrenchment in children's and adults' performance on grammaticality judgment tasks

Cognitive Development

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 15-34

  Theakston, Anna L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entrenchment; Overgeneralization errors; Verb argument structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742271648     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2003.08.001     Document Type: Article

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