Similarities and variation in noun and verb acquisition: A crosslinguistic study of children learning German, Korean, and Turkish

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1045-1072

  Kauschke, Christina ^a   Lee, Hae Wook ^b   Pae, Soyeong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b Pusan University of Foreign Studies   (South Korea)

^c Hallym University   (South Korea)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; KOREA; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VARIANCE;

EID: 41149108017     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960701307348     Document Type: Article

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