Context-Sensftive Verb Children's Ability to Associate Contextual Information with the Argument of a Verb

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 137-182

  Gropen, Jess ^a   Epstein, Trina ^a   Schumacher, Lisa ^a  

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EID: 84933480262     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cogl.1997.8.2.137     Document Type: Article

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