Young children's sensitivity to new and given information when answering predicate-focus questions

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 101-115

  Salomo, Dorothé ^a   Lieven, Elena ^a   Tomasello, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 77951233582     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: 14691817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S014271640999018X     Document Type: Article

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