The role of input frequency in article acquisition in early child Swedish

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 51-82

  Bohnacker, Ute ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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