Japanese and Chinese Learners' Acquisition of the Narrow-Range Rules for the Dative Alternation in English

Language Learning

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 637-669

  Inagaki, Shunji ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0031327560     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0023-8333.00024     Document Type: Article

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