Using corpora to investigate antonym acquisition

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 401-422

  Jones, Steven ^a   Murphy, M Lynne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antonymy; Child language acquisition; CHILDES; Speech

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247577162     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.10.3.06jon     Document Type: Article

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