Japanese speakers' second language Chinese wh-questions: A lexical morphological feature deficit account

Second Language Research

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 329-357

  Yuan, Boping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Interface properties in L2; Japanese; L2 Chinese; Variability in L2; Wh in situ; Wh movement; Wh questions

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547635255     PISSN: 02676583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267658307077644     Document Type: Article

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