Object agreement and specificity in early Swahili

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 223-246

  Deen, Kamil Ud ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Department of Linguisticts ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECORDING; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TAPE RECORDING;

EID: 33744812703     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000906007422     Document Type: Article

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