The information in third-person /s/: Acquisition across dialects of American English

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 133-158

  De Villiers, Jill G ^a   Johnson, Valerie E ^b  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; UNITED STATES;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; UNITED STATES; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33846581922     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000906007768     Document Type: Article

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