Investigating the abstractness of children's early knowledge of argument structure

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 693-720

  McClure, Kathleen ^a   Pine, Julian M ^b   Lieven, Elena V M ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH ORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVIEW; SOCIAL CLASS; TIME; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

BIRTH ORDER; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHONETICS; SOCIAL CLASS; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33750312485     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000906007525     Document Type: Review

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