Dutch gender in specific language impairment and second language acquisition

Second Language Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 333-364

  Orgassa, Antje ^a,b   Weerman, Fred ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Age effects; Agreement deficit; Dutch gender; Frames; L2 acquisition; Processing limitations; Rules; SLI

Indexed keywords

EID: 60249097614     PISSN: 02676583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267658308090184     Document Type: Article

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