Rethinking child difficulty: The effect of NP type on children's processing of relative clauses in Hebrew

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-57

  Arnon, Inbal ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 77449101215     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S030500090900943X     Document Type: Article

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