Towards a lexically specific grammar of children's question constructions

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 437-474

  Da̧browska, Ewa ^a   Lieven, Elena ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

High density developmental corpora; Interrogative constructions; Language acquisition; Lexically specific units; Piecemeal learning; Usage based approaches

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944496318     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cogl.2005.16.3.437     Document Type: Article

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