Disentangling the impact of semantic and formal factors in the acquisition of number inflections: Noun, adjective and verb agreement in written French

Reading and Writing

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 717-736

  Fayol, M ^a   Totereau, Corinne ^a   Barrouillet, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Pluralization of nouns; Verbs and adjectives in French

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EID: 33748643407     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-005-1371-7     Document Type: Article

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