What frequency can do and what it can't

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 23-48

  Roeper, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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