German-speaking children's productivity with syntactic constructions and case morphology: Local cues act locally

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Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 103-125

  Wittek, Angelika ^a   Tomasello, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Case marking; Grammar; Language acquisition; Learning; Syntax

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745966749     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723705049120     Document Type: Article

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