Acquisition and change: On the robustness of the triggering experience for word order cues

Lingua

Volumn 118, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1841-1863

  Westergaard, Marit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Change; Input frequency; Micro cues; Norwegian; Verb second

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949158713     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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