Reference time in child English and Polish

First Language

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 281-297

  Pawlak, Aleksandra ^a   Oehlrich, Jessica S ^b   Weist, Richard M ^b  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT FREDONIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crosslinguistic; English Polish; Language acquisition; Reference time; Temporal reference

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249166831     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723706059447     Document Type: Article

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