Resumptive pronouns in English-Chinese and Arabic-Chinese interlanguages

IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teachings

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 219-237

  Yuan, Boping ^a   Zhao, Yang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 24944499233     PISSN: 0019042X     EISSN: 16134141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/iral.2005.43.3.219     Document Type: Article

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