Children's Grammars Grow More Abstract with Age-Evidence from an Automatic Procedure for Identifying the Productive Units of Language

Topics in Cognitive Science

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 175-188

  Borensztajn, Gideon ^a   Zuidema, Willem ^a   Bod, Rens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Constructions; Data oriented parsing; First language acquisition; Usage based grammar

Indexed keywords

CHILD; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; PROCEDURES;

CHILD; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS;

EID: 77649239741     PISSN: 17568757     EISSN: 17568765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2008.01009.x     Document Type: Article

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