The gradual emergence of phonological form in a new Language

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 503-543

  Sandler, Wendy ^a   Aronoff, Mark ^b   Meir, Irit ^a   Padden, Carol ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Duality of patterning; Phonology; Sign language

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960051473     PISSN: 0167806X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11049-011-9128-2     Document Type: Article

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