A cue-based approach to the acquisition of grammatical gender in Russian

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1077-1106

  Rodina, Yulia ^a   Westergaard, Marit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEMANTICS; SEX DIFFERENCE;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; RUSSIA; SEMANTICS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84867462911     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000911000419     Document Type: Article

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