Finding the Verbs: Distributional Cues to Categories Available to Young Learners

Action Meets Word: How Children Learn Verbs

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Mintz, Toben H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributional cues; Distributional information; Linguistic input; Patterning of words; Verbs; Young learners

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EID: 84920380897     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195170009.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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