The interaction of complexity and grammatical processability: The case of Swedish as a foreign language

IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 45-68

  Norrby, Catrin ^a   Håkansson, Gisela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 33847688456     PISSN: 0019042X     EISSN: 16134141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/IRAL.2007.002     Document Type: Article

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