Articles, adjectives and age of onset: The acquisition of Dutch grammatical gender

Second Language Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 297-331

  Blom, Elma ^a   Polišenská, Daniela ^a   Weerman, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adjectives; Age effects; Articles; Frames; Grammatical gender; L1 acquisition; L2 acquisition; Rules

Indexed keywords

EID: 60249097976     PISSN: 02676583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267658308090183     Document Type: Article

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