Individual differences in syntactic priming in language acquisition

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 393-418

  Kidd, Evan ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84859153250     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: 14691817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0142716411000415     Document Type: Article

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