The (non-)effect of input frequency on the acquisition of word order in Norwegian embedded clauses

Frequency Effects in Language Acquisition: Defining the Limits of Frequency as an Explanatory Concept

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 271-306

  Westergaard, Marit ^a   Bentzen, Kristine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

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