Early understanding of subject and object Wh-questions

Infancy

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 423-436

  Seidl, Amanda ^a,b   Hollich, George ^a   Jusczyk, Peter W ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD GROWTH; HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 33747107868     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327078IN0403_06     Document Type: Article

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