Early syntactic productivity: Evidence from dative shift

Cognition

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 163-179

  Conwell, Erin ^a   Demuth, Katherine ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dative shift; Language acquisition; Syntactic generalization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SYNTAX;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33847110704     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.03.003     Document Type: Article

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