Comparing different accounts of inversion errors in children's non-subject wh-questions: 'What experimental data can tell us?'

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 519-557

  Ambridge, Ben ^a   Rowland, Caroline F ^a   Theakston, Anna L ^b   Tomasello, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33749356270     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000906007513     Document Type: Article

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