Syntactic categorization in French-learning infants

Infancy

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 517-533

  Shi, Rushen ^a   Melançon, Andréane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SYNTACTIC CATEGORIZATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 78649544453     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2009.00022.x     Document Type: Article

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