Explaining errors in children's questions

Cognition

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 106-134

  Rowland, Caroline F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Errors; Language acquisition; Language specific knowledge; Questions; Usage based model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; ERROR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34247220313     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.05.011     Document Type: Article

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