Acquisition of exhaustivity in wh-questions: A semantic dimension of SLI?

Lingua

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 383-407

  Schulz, Petra ^a   Roeper, Tom ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Exhaustivity; German; Pair list reading; SLI; Wh question

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651359610     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2010.10.005     Document Type: Article

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