Ambiguous function words do not prevent 18‐month‐olds from building accurate syntactic category expectations: An ERP study

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Neuropsychologia

• Publication date

  2017-04-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Linguistics, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.08.015PMID 27544044
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