Form and function in Irish child directed speech
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Corpus Child Directed Speech Adult Directed Speech
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognitive Linguistics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0936-5907,1613-3641
DOI: 10.1515/cogl.2011.022