Describing the acquisition of determiners in English: A growth modeling approach

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 407-424

  Abu Akel, Ahmad ^a   Bailey, Alison L ^b   Thum, Yeow Meng ^b  

^a Los Angeles CA 90024 ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

determiners; growth modeling; individual variation; language acquisition

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REFERENCE VALUE; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 4444269421     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOPR.0000039548.35396.c2     Document Type: Article

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