The acquisition of tense-aspect marking in Japanese as a second language

Language Learning

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 279-244

  Shirai, Yasuhiro ^a   Kurono, Atsuko ^b  

^a Morrill Hall ^*  (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0032376102     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9922.00041     Document Type: Article

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