On the role of pragmatics in child-directed speech for the acquisition of verb morphology

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 219-239

  Kilani Schoch, Marianne ^a   Balčiuniene, Ingrida ^b   Korecky Kröll, Katharina ^c   Laaha, Sabine ^c   Dressler, Wolfgang U ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^c ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Child Language; Child directed speech; French; German; Inference; Lithuanian; Morphology; Pragmatics

Indexed keywords

EID: 58249123369     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2008.10.001     Document Type: Article

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