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Frequency effects in grammatical development: a cross-linguistic, functional approach to form–function mapping

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2015

YASUHIRO SHIRAI
YASUHIRO SHIRAI*
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University of Pittsburgh
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Journal of Child Language , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , March 2015 , pp. 312 - 315
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