When do children generalize the plural to novel nouns?

First Language

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 53-73

  Zapf, Jennifer A ^a   Smith, Linda B ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Elicitation task; First language acquisition; Generalization; Morphological development

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249149108     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723707070286     Document Type: Article

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