Early Syntactic Categories in Infants' Language

Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 481-495

  Shi, Rushen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-008044612-7/50076-7     Document Type: Chapter

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