Signs of a developing grammar: Subject drop and inflection in early child Dutch

Linguistics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 195-234

  Blom, Elma ^a   Van Geert, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 1642347008     PISSN: 00243949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ling.2004.003     Document Type: Article

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