The company that words keep: comparing the statistical structure of child- versus adult-directed language*

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Journal of Child Language

• Publication date

  2012-05-14

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Linguistics, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1017/S0305000912000165PMID 22584041
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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