The acquisition of questions with long-distance dependencies

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 571-597

  Dabrowska, Ewa ^a   Rowland, Caroline ^a   Theakston, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complementation; Language acquisition; Long distance dependencies; Questions; Usage based approaches

Indexed keywords

EID: 69149105883     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COGL.2009.025     Document Type: Article

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