Young Children'S earliest transitive and intransitive constructions

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 379-396

  Tomasello, Michael ^a   Brooks, Patricia J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

acquisition; constructions; syntax acquisition; verbs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937185301     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cogl.1998.9.4.379     Document Type: Article

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