Acquisition of english comparative adjectives

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 345-373

  Graziano King, Janine ^a   Cairns, Helen Smith ^b  

^a KINGSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 22544451861     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000904006828     Document Type: Article

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