Abstract categories or limited-scope formulae? the case of children's determiners

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 743-778

  Valian, Virginia ^a   Solt, Stephanie ^a   Stewart, John ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MOTHER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TIME;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LINGUISTICS; MOTHERS; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70349784335     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000908009082     Document Type: Article

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