Syntactic and prosodic computations in the resolution of relative clause attachment ambiguity by English-French learners

Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 453-480

  Dekydtspotter, Laurent ^a   Donaldson, Bryan ^a   Edmonds, Amanda C ^a   Fultz, Audrey Liljestrand ^a   Petrush, Rebecca A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 55549129286     PISSN: 02722631     EISSN: 14701545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0272263108080728     Document Type: Article

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