Social factors in the acquisition of a new word order

First Language

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 427-445

  Chang, Franklin ^a,b   Kobayashi, Tessei ^b   Amano, Shigeaki ^b  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Input; Japanese; Learning; Sentence production; Social knowledge; Syntax acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 70549106559     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723709105316     Document Type: Article

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