Explaining frequency of verb morphology in early L2 speech

Lingua

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 595-612

  Hawkins, Roger ^a   Casillas, Gabriela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contextual Complexity Hypothesis; Distributed morphology; Input frequency; Second language; Verb morphology

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149098169     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2007.01.009     Document Type: Article

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