Children use canonical sentence schemas: A crosslinguistic study of word order and inflections

1982/01/01 by Dan I. Slobin, Thomas G. Bever · 465 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Artificial intelligence #Computer science #Language Development and Disorders #Linguistics #Perception #Philosophy #Phrase #Psychology #Reading and Literacy Development #Schema (genetic algorithms) #Sentence #Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation #Word order

paper · doi:10.1016/0010-0277(82)90033-6

published in Cognition 12(3), 229-265 (Elsevier BV)

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