When children reach beyond their grasp: Why some children make pronoun case errors and others don't

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 93-116

  Rispoli, Matthew ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VIDEORECORDING;

CAREGIVERS; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 14644427085     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000904006658     Document Type: Article

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