Input and the Acquisition of Language: Three Questions

Blackwell Handbook of Language Development

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 107-127

  Gathercole, Virginia C Mueller ^a   Hoff, Erika ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributional learning; Grammar; Language acqusition; Linguistic knowledge; Universal grammar (UG)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889321147     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470757833.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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