A cognitive and corpus-linguistic re-analysis of the acquisition of the Zulu noun class system

Language Matters

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 316-331

  Zawada, Britta ^a   Ngcobo, Mtholeni N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cognitive linguistics; Corpus linguistics; Frequency; Language acquisition; Prototypicality; Southern African Spoken and Signed Language Corpus (SASSLC); Zulu noun class system

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649161734     PISSN: 10228195     EISSN: 17535395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10228190802579718     Document Type: Article

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