The emergence of complex syntax: A longitudinal case study of the ESL development of dependency resolution

Lingua

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 499-521

  Mellow, J Dean ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dependency resolution; Emergentism; Pragmatic predictability; Second language acquisition; Syntactic constructions

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149097220     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2007.01.007     Document Type: Article

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