Bidirectional crosslinguistic influence in L1-L2 encoding of manner in speech and gesture: A study of Japanese speakers of english

Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 225-251

  Brown, Amanda ^a   Gullberg, Marianne ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

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EID: 42449139565     PISSN: 02722631     EISSN: 14701545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0272263108080327     Document Type: Article

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