Pronoun co-referencing errors: Challenges for generativist and usage-based accounts

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 599-626

  Matthews, Danielle ^a   Lieven, Elena ^a   Theakston, Anna ^a   Tomasello, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaphora; Binding; Frequency; Language acquisition; Pronouns; Quantifiers; Truth value judgment task

Indexed keywords

EID: 69149097197     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COGL.2009.026     Document Type: Article

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