Children's interpretation of indefinites in sentences containing negation: A reassessment of the cross-linguistic picture

Language Acquisition

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 315-328

  Unsworth, Sharon ^a   Gualmini, Andrea ^a   Helder, Christina ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 54049146921     PISSN: 10489223     EISSN: 15327817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10489220802338742     Document Type: Article

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