Direct object predictability: Effects on young children's imitation of sentences

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 247-269

  Valian, Virginia ^a   Prasada, Sandeep ^a   Scarpa, Jodi ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMITATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33744788346     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000906007392     Document Type: Article

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