Mandarin temporality inference in child, maternal and adult speech

First Language

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 147-169

  Huang, Chiung Chih ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acquisition of aspect; Acquisition of tense; Discourse developments; Parental speech; Pragmatic development

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248700365     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/01427237030232001     Document Type: Article

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