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Lingua

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 632-635

  Mellow, J Dean ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emergentism; Second language acquisition; Syntactic constructions; Theory evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149099188     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2007.03.006     Document Type: Article

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