Testing the effects of frequency on the rate of learning: Determiner use in early French, German and Italian

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 83-116

  Kupisch, Tanja ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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