Salvaging a childhood language

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 998-1011

  Au, Terry Kit fong ^a   Oh, Janet S ^b   Knightly, Leah M ^c   Jun, Sun Ah ^c   Romo, Laura F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood language; Grammar; Language acquisition; Morphosyntax; Phonology; Spanish

Indexed keywords

EID: 41149115216     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2007.11.001     Document Type: Article

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