Pick it up: a look at referential devices in Estonian child-directed speech
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عنوان ژورنال: Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2228-1339,1736-8987
DOI: 10.12697/jeful.2015.6.2.03