The influence of discourse context on children's provision of auxiliary BE

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 129-158

  Theakston, Anna L ^a   Lieven, Elena V M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 37849018458     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000907008306     Document Type: Article

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