Inflectional bootstrapping in 2-year-olds

Language and Speech

Volumn 51, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 45-59

  Jolly, Helen R ^a   Plunkett, Kim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Language acquisition; Plural inflection; Word learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 44849094279     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00238309080510010401     Document Type: Conference Paper

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