On the Development of the Field of Language Development

Blackwell Handbook of Language Development

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-15

  Shatz, Marilyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational skills; Language acqusition; Language development; Linguistics; Syntactic knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 61049219276     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470757833.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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