Culture-specific influences on semantic development: Learning the Tzeltal 'benefactive' construction

Learning Indigenous Languages: Child Language Acquisition in Mesoamerica

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 119-154

  Brown, Penelope ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

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