The growth of tense productivity

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 930-944

  Rispoli, Matthew ^a   Hadley, Pamela A ^a   Holt, Janet K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental psycholinguistics; Finiteness; Grammar; Growth modeling; Language development; Tense

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LINEAR MODELS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 68149141613     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2009/08-0079)     Document Type: Article

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