Elicited production of case-marking in Russian and Serbian children: Are diminutive nouns easier to inflect?

First Language

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 147-165

  Kempe, Vera ^a   Ševa, Nada ^b   Brooks, Patricia J ^c   Mironova, Natalija ^d   Pershukova, Angelina ^d   Fedorova, Olga ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Case marking; child directed speech; diminutives; Russian; Serbian

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649083044     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723708092441     Document Type: Article

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