Learning to express motion in narratives by Mandarin-speaking children

Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Psychology of Language: Research in the Tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 193-208

  Guo, Jiansheng ^a   Chen, Liang ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203837887     Document Type: Chapter

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