Who did Buzz see someone? Grammaticality judgement of wh-questions in typically developing children and children with Grammatical-SLI

Lingua

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 408-422

  van der Lely, Heather K J ^a   Jones, Melanie ^a   Marshall, Chloë R ^a,b  

^a DLDCNorg   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

G SLI; Grammaticality judgement; Language acquisition; Wh questions

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651371663     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2010.10.007     Document Type: Article

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