ERP signatures of subject-verb agreement in L2 learning

Bilingualism

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 161-174

  Chen, Lang ^a   Shu, Hua ^a   Liu, Youyi ^a   Zhao, Jingjing ^a   Li, Ping ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

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EID: 34447265546     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S136672890700291X     Document Type: Article

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