Does the noun phrase accessibility hierarchy predict the difficulty order in the acquisition of Japanese relative clauses?

Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 169-196

  Ozeki, Hiromi ^a   Shirai, Yasuhiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 34247636236     PISSN: 02722631     EISSN: 14701545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0272263107070106     Document Type: Article

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