What asymmetries within comprehension reveal about asymmetries between comprehension and production: The case of verb inflection in language acquisition

Lingua

Volumn 120, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1910-1925

  Brandt Kobele, Oda Christina ^a   Höhle, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acquisition of German; Eye tracking; Production comprehension asymmetry; Verb inflection

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952421595     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2010.02.008     Document Type: Article

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