Discovering grammar: Prosodic and morpho-syntactic aspects of rule formation in first language acquisition

Learning: Rule Extraction and Representation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 37-70

  Höhle, Barbara ^a   Weissenborn, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110803488.37     Document Type: Chapter

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