Constructing verb paradigms in French: Adult construals and emerging grammatical contrasts

Morphology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 89-120

  Clark, Eve V ^a   de Marneffe, Marie Catherine ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Early verbs; French; Homophony; Reformulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858444924     PISSN: 18715621     EISSN: 18715656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11525-011-9193-6     Document Type: Article

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