L2 grammatical gender in a complex morphological system: The case of German

IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 315-348

  Spinner, Patti ^a   Juffs, Alan ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 56749150306     PISSN: 0019042X     EISSN: 16134141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/IRAL.2008.014     Document Type: Article

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