Native-like attainment of dummy subjects in Dutch and the role of the L1

IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 355-380

  Van Boxtel, Sonja ^a   Bongaerts, Theo ^b   Coppen, Peter Arno ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

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EID: 28844488872     PISSN: 0019042X     EISSN: 16134141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/iral.2005.43.4.355     Document Type: Article

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