A fresh look at how young children encode new referents

IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 111-127

  De Cat, Cécile ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34248713212     PISSN: 0019042X     EISSN: 16134141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/iral.2004.005     Document Type: Article

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