Early development of verb structures and caregiver input in Korean: Two case studies

International Journal of Bilingualism

Volumn 3, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 241-265

  Choi, Soonja ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Argument structure; Korean acquisition; Syntactic and semantic development

Indexed keywords

EID: 15244362729     PISSN: 13670069     EISSN: 17566878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/13670069990030020701     Document Type: Article

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