Cue-based Acquisition and Information Structure Drift in Diachronic Language Development

Diachronic Studies on Information Structure: Language Acquisition and Change

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 87-116

  Westergaard, Marit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110227475.87     Document Type: Chapter

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