Developing noun phrase complexity at school age: A text-embedded cross-linguistic analysis

First Language

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-26

  Ravid, Dorit ^a   Berman, Ruth A ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

English; Genre; Hebrew; Later language development; Noun phrases; Speech and writing; Syntactic acquisition; Text production

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949939600     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723709350531     Document Type: Article

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