Investigating the contribution of procedural and declarative memory to the acquisition of past tense morphology: Evidence from Finnish

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 4-6, 2011, Pages 794-829

  Kidd, Evan ^a,b   Kirjavainen, Minna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Finnish; Language acquisition; Memory; Past tense morphology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEMORY; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 79957550946     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2010.493735     Document Type: Article

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