The acquisition of progressive and resultative meanings of the imperfective aspect marker by L2 learners of Japanese: Transfer, universals, or multiple factors?

Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-38

  Sugaya, Natsue ^a   Shirai, Yasuhiro ^b  

^a Niigata Sangyo University   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 33947572377     PISSN: 02722631     EISSN: 14701545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0272263107070015     Document Type: Article

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