The emergence of Dutch connectives; How cumulative cognitive complexity explains the order of acquisition

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 829-854

  Evers Vermeul, Jacqueline ^a   Sanders, Ted ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH; TIME;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70349787491     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000908009227     Document Type: Article

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