Production/comprehension asymmetries in language acquisition

Lingua

Volumn 120, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1887-1897

  Hendriks, Petra ^a   Koster, Charlotte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competence vs. performance; Comprehension delays; Language acquisition; Production delays

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952429154     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2010.02.002     Document Type: Article

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