Sex differences in past tense overregularization

Developmental Science

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 882-889

  Kidd, Evan ^a   Lum, Jarrad A G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 53949085349     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00744.x     Document Type: Article

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