Possible loci of SLI from a both linguistic and psycholinguistic perspective

Lingua

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 476-486

  Corrêa, Letícia M Sicuro ^a   Augusto, Marina R A ^a,b  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bidirectional computation; Bootstrapping; Functional features; Minimalism; Movement; SLI

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651353034     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2010.10.011     Document Type: Article

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