Sequence and system in the acquisition of tense and agreement

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1007-1021

  Rispoli, Matthew ^a   Hadley, Pamela A ^a   Holt, Janet K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Agreement; Grammar; Morphosyntax; Tense

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84866055236     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2011/10-0272)     Document Type: Article

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