The acquisition of subject-verb agreement in written French: From novices to experts' errors

Reading and Writing

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 153-174

  Fayol, Michel ^a   Hupet, Michel ^b   Largy, Pierre ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

Agreement errors; Syntax; Working memory load; Writing acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001566998     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008038127807     Document Type: Article

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