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Productivity and constraints in the acquisition of the passive
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Metadata
- Authors
- Pinker, S., Lebeaux, D. S., & Frost, L. A.
- Venue
- Cognition
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1987-08
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 195-267
- ISSN
- 0010-0277 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2058503899
- Cited by
- 353
- References
- 46
- FWCI
- 8.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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