Morphological variability in the comprehension of agreement: An argument for representation over computation

Second Language Research

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 459-486

  McCarthy, Corrine ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition of inflection; Comprehension of inflection; L2 gender; Morphological variability; Second language morphology; Underspecification

Indexed keywords

EID: 60249095068     PISSN: 02676583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267658308095737     Document Type: Article

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