'If she had of shutted the cage, the rabbit wouldn't escape': Past counterfactuals elicited from 6-to 11-year-old children

First Language

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 209-240

  Crutchley, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complex structures; Elicitation task; Later language development; Picture stimulus; Syntax

Indexed keywords

EID: 61049217272     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723704044935     Document Type: Article

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