Why brush your teeth is better than teeth - children's word production is facilitated in familiar sentence-frames

Language Learning and Development

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 107-129

  Arnon, Inbal ^a   Clark, Eve V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79954565059     PISSN: 15475441     EISSN: 15473341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2010.505489     Document Type: Article

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