Acquiring the english adjective lexicon: Relationships with input properties and adjectival semantic typology

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 535-562

  Blackwell, Aleka Akoyunoglou ^a  

^a MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 27244445034     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000905006938     Document Type: Article

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