Early acquisition of nouns and verbs evidence from Navajo

Routes to Language: Studies in Honor of Melissa Bowerman

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5-36

  Gentner, Dedre ^a   Boroditsky, Lera ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203837924-9     Document Type: Chapter

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