A cross-linguistic investigation of the acquisition of the pragmatics of indefinite and definite reference in two-year-olds

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 773-807

  Rozendaal, Margot Isabella ^a,b   Baker, Anne Edith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NARRATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 53849147622     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000908008702     Document Type: Article

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