Nouns and verbs in Chintang: Children's usage and surrounding adult speech

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 284-321

  Stoll, Sabine ^a   Bickel, Balthasar ^b   Lieven, Elena ^a   Paudyal, Netra P ^b   Banjade, Goma ^c   Bhatta, Toya N ^c   Gaenszle, Martin ^c   Pettigrew, Judith ^c   Rai, Ichchha Purna ^c   Rai, Manoj ^c   Rai, Novel Kishore ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c Chintang and Puma Documentation Project   (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84856872691     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000911000080     Document Type: Article

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