Lexical principles may underlie the learning of verbs.

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• Publication year

  1996

• Venue

  Child Development

• Publication date

  1996-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Linguistics, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1111/J.1467-8624.1996.TB01905.XPMID 9071772
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