Revisiting the acquisition of Sesotho noun class prefixes

Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Psychology of Language: Research in the Tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 93-104

  Demuth, Katherine ^a   Ellis, David ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203837887     Document Type: Chapter

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