Grammar and the lexicon: Developmental ordering in language acquisition

Child Development

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 190-212

  Dixon, James A ^a   Marchman, Virginia A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33847377513     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.00992.x     Document Type: Article

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