Typological constraints on the acquisition of spatial language in French and English

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 189-215

  Hickmann, Maya ^a   Hendëriks, Henritte ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

And cause; First language acquisition; French and English; Longitudinal and experimental data; Manner; Path; Typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953860261     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COGL.2010.007     Document Type: Article

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