A Syntactic analysis of the acquisition of Case marking: The Seeds of Structure

Clahsen, Harald; Eisenbeiss, Sonja; Vainikka, Anne

doi:10.1075/lald.8.07cla

In:Language Acquisition Studies in Generative Grammar
Edited by Teun Hoekstra and Bonnie D. Schwartz
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 8] 1994
► pp. 85–118

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The Seeds of Structure

A Syntactic analysis of the acquisition of Case marking

Harald Clahsen

Sonja Eisenbeiss

Anne Vainikka

Published online: 1 January 1994

https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.8.07cla

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