The uses of Spanish copulas by Chinese-speaking learners in a free writing task

Bilingualism

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 301-317

  Cheng, An Chung ^a   Lu, Hui Chuan ^b   Giannakouros, Panayotis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

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EID: 54549086873     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728908003532     Document Type: Article

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