Restrictive relative clauses in English and Korean learners' second language Chinese

Second Language Research

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 263-287

  Hu, Xiaoling ^a,b   Liu, Chuanping ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Functional categories; L1 transfer in L2 Chinese; L2 Chinese; Relative clauses in L2 Chinese; Restructuring in L2 Chinese

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547637425     PISSN: 02676583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267658307077642     Document Type: Article

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