Children's early productivity with verbal morphology

Cognitive Development

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 223-239

  Wagner, Laura ^a   Swensen, Lauren D ^b   Naigles, Letitia R ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Institute for Basic Research   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Language development; Productivity; Tense aspect; Verbs

Indexed keywords

EID: 67849105116     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2009.05.001     Document Type: Article

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