From Dichotomy to Divergence: Number/Gender Marking on Hebrew Nouns and Adjectives Across School Ages

Language Learning

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 133-169

  Ravid, Dorit ^a   Schiff, Rachel ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adjective; First language acquisition; Gender; Hebrew; Morphology; Nouns; Number; Plural

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857367710     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2011.00675.x     Document Type: Article

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