Young children's difficulty with adjectives modifying nouns

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 255-285

  Ninio, Anat ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 3142697219     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000904006191     Document Type: Article

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