The emergence of complexity in prosody and syntax

Lingua

Volumn 121, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 2014-2033

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

New sign language; Prosody; Sign language; Syntax

Indexed keywords

EID: 82755182904     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2011.05.007     Document Type: Article

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