Young German children's early syntactic competence: A preferential looking study

Developmental Science

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 575-582

  Dittmar, Miriam ^a,b   Abbot Smith, Kirsten ^c   Lieven, Elena ^a   Tomasello, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD LANGUAGE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 45349107198     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00703.x     Document Type: Article

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