A construction-based analysis of the acquisition of East Asian relative clauses

Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 311-320

  Diessel, Holger ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

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EID: 34247576790     PISSN: 02722631     EISSN: 14701545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0272263107070167     Document Type: Note

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