First language influences on second language word reading: All roads lead to Rome

Language Learning

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 447-471

  Wade Woolley, Lesly ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0033466584     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0023-8333.00096     Document Type: Article

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