Tense over time: Testing the Agreement/Tense Omission Model as an account of the pattern of tense-marking provision in early child English

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 55-75

  Pine, Julian M ^a   Conti Ramsden, Gina ^b   Joseph, Kate L ^b   Lieven, Elena V M ^b   Serratrice, Ludovica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TIME;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 37849005439     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000907008252     Document Type: Article

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