The input to verb learning in mandarin chinese: A role for syntactic bootstrapping

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 529-540

  Lee, Joanne N ^a   Naigles, Letitia R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Child directed speech; Mandarin Chinese; Syntactic bootstrapping; Syntax semantics correspondences; Verb learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; VIDEORECORDING;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 20444463737     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.41.3.529     Document Type: Article

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