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Kein subjects are hard: Exploring German-speaking children's behavior with negative indefinites.

In this article, we present converging results from three studies investigating children's production or comprehension of the negative indefinite kein in German. An elicited production study found that 3- to 6-year-old children and adults exhibit different patterns with respect to the production of...

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Published in:Language Acquisition Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 484 - 517
Main Authors: Bill, Cory, Driemel, Imke, Yatsushiro, Kazuko, Hein, Johannes, Sauerland, Uli
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Oct-Dec2025
Subjects:
Language acquisition
Semantics
School children
German language
Cognitive psychology
Syntax (Grammar)
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