Morphosyntactic learning and the development of tense

Language Acquisition

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 315-344

  Legate, Julie Anne ^a   Yang, Charles ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 34848893269     PISSN: 10489223     EISSN: 15327817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10489220701471081     Document Type: Article

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