Young children's knowledge of the "determiner" and "adjective" categories

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 592-609

  Kemp, Nenagh ^a   Lieven, Elena ^b,c   Tomasello, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Experimental research; Normal language development; Preschool children

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESEARCH; SPEECH; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT;

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

EID: 24944470821     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2005/041)     Document Type: Article

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