On the acquisition of principle B

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 333-365

  Elbourne, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Binding theory; Middle english; Principle b; Rule

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844481629     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0024389054396908     Document Type: Article

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