Acquisition of English tense-aspect morphology by advanced French instructed learners

Language Learning

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 555-595

  Ayoun, Dalila ^a   Salaberry, M Rafael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspect hypothesis; Discourse hypothesis; English as a foreign language; French instructed learners; Past tense morphology; Second foreign language learning; Tense and aspect

Indexed keywords

EID: 50249159566     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2008.00450.x     Document Type: Article

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