Second language learning of complex inflectional systems

Language Learning

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 703-746

  Kempe, Vera ^a   Brooks, Patricia J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Case marking; Culture fair IQ; Grammatical gender; Inflectional morphology; Nonverbal IQ; Russian; Second language learning; Verbal working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 56649111016     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2008.00477.x     Document Type: Article

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