Testing the role of semantic similarity in syntactic development

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 35-61

  Ninio, Anat ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECORDING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TAPE RECORDING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 14644439792     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000904006713     Document Type: Article

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