What's in the input? Frequent frames in child-directed speech offer distributional cues to grammatical categories in Spanish and English

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1089-1108

  Weisleder, Adriana ^a   Waxman, Sandra R ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SPAIN; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CUES; ENGLAND; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; SEMANTICS; SPAIN;

EID: 78650174886     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000909990067     Document Type: Article

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